Solaris Sound Support for 21.4.20; Was: [Success with a little effort] XEmacs 21.4.19

[Rodney Sparapani]

Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> Adrian Aichner wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rodney, I was wondering about your configure options.
>>
>> Perhaps you could send the Installation file or output of
>> M-x describe-installation
>> unless you've already done so.
>>
>> Best regards!
>>
>> Adrian
>>
> uname -a: SunOS buz.biostat.mcw.edu 5.9 Generic_118558-10 sun4u sparc 
> SUNW,Ultra-4
> 
> configure '--with-sound=esd' 
> '--native-sound-lib=/usr/local/lib/libao.so'

This is a thread from April.  I've now resolved the issue.  As near as I 
can tell, here's what happened (I tried to reply to this thread earlier, 
but nothing appears to have been sent, so here goes again)...  I believe 
that I had the SUNWaudmo package installed when I was running Solaris 8. 
  I've since upgraded to Solaris 9 where the SUNWaudmo package no longer 
exists, but vestiges remain.  Either SUNWaudmo never contained anything 
more than the libraries themselves, or everything else was lost in the 
upgrade (most likely the former).  So working libraries exist for 
libaudiofile and ESD (among others, like libao), but there are no 
headers, pkg-configs, etc.  Nevertheless, the "hack" above appears to
work fine for 21.4.19.  Possibly, dumb luck was at work there, since it 
does not work for 21.4.20.

So, the right thing to do is to install fresh versions of libaudiofile 
and ESD.  Then, everything works the way it should with:

configure --with-sound=esd

Thanks,

Rodney