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From: Pascal Giard <evilynux@gmail.com>
To: sox developers list <sox-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: ./configure --help
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:01:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJNNDmnwk8ePnRb5ToyufmNn4qZNBYwcu3ZrBNcN0UyPfprvDg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150225195249.GA6440@www.stare.cz>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> This is the ./configure --help of the new 14.4.2.
> After the obligatory options such as --prefix,
> it presents the 'Optional Packages' section.
> This offers various additinal audio formats
> and output drivers.
>
> I believe it would be an improvement if those two were separated
> into, say, 'Aduio Formats', and 'Output Drivers', or at least
> regrouped in the output of --help. Specifically,
>
>   --with-sndio=dyn        load sndio dynamically
>   --with-coreaudio=dyn    load coreaudio dynamically
>   --with-alsa=dyn         load alsa dynamically
>   --with-ao=dyn           load ao dynamically
>   --with-pulseaudio=dyn   load pulseaudio dynamically
>   --with-waveaudio=dyn    load waveaudio dynamically
>   --with-oss=dyn          load oss dynamically
>   --with-sunaudio=dyn     load sunaudio dynamically
>
> are audio output drivers and you typically want exactly one of them;
> now, they are reported inbetween various codecs, of which you
> probably want many.
>
> Does this make sense?

Makes very much sense to me.

> Would configure.ac be the right file to edit?

Yes. If you want to see the result of your changes, you can do a
"autoreconf -i" to regenerate the "configure" script.

-Pascal
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2015-02-25 19:52 ./configure --help Jan Stary
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