Re: [fluid-dev] New debian/ubuntu package available for testing

[Bernat Arlandis i Mañó]

David Henningsson escrigué:
> These rows is what builds the fluidsynth executable:
>
> /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -Wall  -O2
> -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops -finline-functions -Wall -W
> -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused -Winline   -o fluidsynth
> fluidsynth-fluidsynth.o libfluidsynth.la -lpthread
>
> libtool: link: gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops
> -finline-functions -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast
> -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused -Winline -o
> .libs/fluidsynth fluidsynth-fluidsynth.o  ./.libs/libfluidsynth.so
> /usr/lib/liblash.so -luuid -lreadline -lncurses -ljack
> /usr/lib/libasound.so -lm -ldl -lpulse-simple -lpulse
> /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so -lrt /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lpthread -pthread
>
> Do we need all these "-l":s above, and if we don't, how do we get rid of
> them? (Hmm, ticket #38 suddenly comes to mind...)
>
>   
It seems like autotools gets the dependencies for the project as a whole 
and then applies them to every piece built. There should be some way to 
tell which dependencies are for the lib and which ones for the 
executable, but I don't know. Have you asked DD?
> > I'm fairly certain there aren't any issues with Ardour borrowed code. 
> > The rest of FluidSynth should be fairly clean also.  Like Bernat
> > mentioned, I think we should assume it is safe code (I'm fairly certain
> > it is) and take action if someone complains.
> >     
>
> I would like to have such an approach. The question is if that is
> sufficient for a Debian maintainer (but that question should be directed
> to Debian and not you).
>
> While we're at it, I discovered another thing in configure.ac:
>
> dnl The following script checks for ncurses support.
> dnl I copied and adapted it from DataDisplayDebugger's (DDD)
> dnl configure.in, written by Andreas Zeller <address@hidden>.
>
> DDD is GPL, and so is their configure.ac. This should not render
> fluidsynth GPL though, since configure.ac is not linked with fluidsynth,
> but I don't really know what else gets tainted by GPL, given this.
>
> // David
>
>   
You're way too much picky with the licensing issues. Anyone (even Debian 
developers) would pick upstream's word as stated in the source code and 
documentation unless it's proved wrong by someone. By playing the devil 
you're going against yourself and upstream.

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Bernat Arlandis i Mañó