[specimen] patch for specimen's build system

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:45:52PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:56:25AM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 10:06:17AM +0100, Antonio Willy Malara wrote:
> > > the build system that there is in the current svn (i'm workign on rev.
> > > 24) is not as good as it can be: it is using deprecated macros, it has
> > > references to C++ or libgnomeui, unused in specimen, here is my patch.
> > > actually i found it easier to rewrite it from scratch than to fix the
> > > existing. i've also implemented checks for the jack midi api and the
> > > opportunity to disable alsa (for me is important as i'm working on mac
> > > os x, also useful for users with a posix OS that's not linux, like
> > > *bsd, or whatever).
> > > here is the patch to the rev.24:
> > > http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~malara/specimen-autotools-patch.diff
> > > since i've removed some files that were not needed from the build
> > > system i made also a tarball of my working copy, here is it:
> > > http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~malara/specimen-rev24.tar.bz2
> > Thanks!
> > I'll check this out and apply to svn soon.
> 
> I decided not to use this rewrite. Sometime after 0.5.2 is released I'm
> going to switch specimen to a different build system, probably scons.
> autotools and I don't get along.
> 
> Thanks for the contribution and the help with various other build
> issues.

Forgot to say ... I am going to make alsa optional for 0.5.2, though.
And I did incorporate some of the changes/deletions from your patch.

-Eric

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