supercollider 3.7.0 in alioth to try

[Dan S]

2016-05-10 21:33 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> On 10 May 2016 at 17:05, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2016-05-10 18:23 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>> On 6 May 2016 at 13:32, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 2016-05-04 16:09 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>>>> On 4 May 2016 at 11:57, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 2016-04-26 19:23 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>>>>>> On 25 April 2016 at 18:12, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 20 March 2016 at 12:52, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There's a new release of SuperCollider out (3.7) and I've imported and
>>>>>>>>> updated the packaging at pkg-multimedia/supercollider.git . It builds
>>>>>>>>> and works for me (on x64), and I'd like to ask others to have a look
>>>>>>>>> at it and consider testing/uploading it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I reproduce the same failure as Hanno, also on x64:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /usr/bin/ld: ../../external_libraries/libtlsf.a(tlsf.c.o): relocation
>>>>>>>> R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared
>>>>>>>> object; recompile with -fPIC
>>>>>>>> ../../external_libraries/libtlsf.a: error adding symbols: Bad value
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> adding said -fPIC flag to tlsf target continues until:
>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lQt5::OpenGL
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Could you have a look?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This seems to be a missing build-dep on libqt5opengl5-dev. It builds
>>>>>>> fine after that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BTW, why do we disable the testsuite?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (Sorry for the delay - didn't spot your second message)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regarding the testsuite: IIRC it doesn't succeed on all archs, and
>>>>>> that's beyond our control. In 2013 you asked the same question, you
>>>>>> asked "Why disable the testsuite? After all, if it is failing, its for
>>>>>> a reason...." and my answer was the following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's what I thought too at first. However it's not intended to be
>>>>>>> packaged (it doesn't build anything), and after discussion with the
>>>>>>> developer who actually made and maintains that testsuite, he wanted it
>>>>>>> that way... (It's not really a testsuite of supercollider, btw, I
>>>>>>> think covers the 'supernova' component.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Heh, sorry for forgetting about that. I added a comment to that effect
>>>>> to debian/rules.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. Also thanks for the suggested build fixes. Now I've upgraded
>>>> my OS I can finally confirm them, so I've pushed them (and proposed
>>>> them upstream too).
>>>
>>> So now we have several build failures:
>>>
>>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=supercollider
>>>
>>> All of them in the embedded oscpack, but not all of them the same. I
>>> was going to suggest using the available library, but it is orphaned.
>>> Anyone up to take the maintainance of oscpack?
>>
>> One thing to note: it's only "supernova" that makes use of oscpack,
>> and supernova is optional since it's a drop-in replacement for
>> "scsynth".
>> So, one cop-out alternative available to us (if oscpack isn't getting
>> fixed) is that on some platforms we could disable building it
>> (-DSUPERNOVA=0) and disable packaging it.
>
> We are already doing that[1], so that is a possible course of action.
>
> BTW, is it possible to use a system oscpack? It looks like the library
> is barely ever updated, so maybe I could just bite the bullet and
> upload it.

Possible, yes, should be. However note that the pack did get a minor
tweak in the supercollider local copy, see first commit here:
https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/commits/master/external_libraries/oscpack_1_1_0

I guess by "upload" you mean upload the latest (1.1.0) oscpack to unstable?
https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/oscpack
I don't see much harm in uploading, though I've no idea of the
present/future state of the lib - seems to be a little stale at
present.

Dan