[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#708246: Bug#708246: mpd in wheezy built without sidplay support

[Lauri Tirkkonen]

On Tue, May 14 2013 23:28:53 +0200, Florian Schlichting wrote:
> the build log for the wheezy version contains the following lines:
> 
> checking for main in -lsidplay2... yes
> checking for main in -lresid-builder... yes
> checking for main in -lsidutils... no
> configure: WARNING: libresid-builder or libsidutils not found -- disabling sidplay decoder plugin
> 
> This is no longer the case from 0.17-1 onwards, but since you say it
> works just fine for you when recompiling, I'd say it's probably due to a
> bug in a different package than mpd.

On my machine, I had libresid-builder-dev installed, so I see the
problem: perhaps the mpd build dependencies are insufficient after all.
I don't think it's a bug elsewhere though; either the mpd binary gets
built with sidplay support (and linked with libsidplay2) or it doesn't
:)

> So things are fine in testing, but for wheezy, there's little I can do
> at this point. All I have to offer is a backport of the current testing
> version to wheezy-backports. Would that be of use to you?

Personally I would be happy with this solution, but since mpd in wheezy
ships with configuration that has commented-out examples on how to use
the builtin sidplay plugin (and indeed has the build-dependency on
libsidplay2), I would assume that it's supposed to be built with sidplay
support there as well. If that is the case, it might be helpful to
require the feature in mpd by adding the --enable-sidplay configure
option.

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