[Pkg-alsa-devel] Re: Trying to test timidity for ALSA incompatibility, please help :)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 09:44:57AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > TiMidity uses the alsa sequence _server_ interface, so that it can
> > attach to ALSA as a sequencer for other programs to send events to.
> 
> What is wrong with timidity is this (AFAICT):
> 
> alsaseq.c:
> 
> #if SND_LIB_MINOR >= 6
> /* !! this is a dirty hack.  not sure to work in future !! */
> [stuff]
> #endif
> 
> This is not valid for 1.0.1 now, for obvious reasons. Should check for
> SND_LIB_MAJOR >= 1 too.
> 

Yuck. Indeed, timidity upstream does some... icky things.

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