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From: Prafulla Giri <pratheblackdiamond <at> gmail.com>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
Cc: 43628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#43628] Further Info
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:52:34 +0545

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Okay, I think I'm stuck now. lol



On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:42 PM Prafulla Giri <pratheblackdiamond <at> gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Mr. Lepiller,
>
> Thank you for the tip. For the moment, I want to poke around this issue.
> Perhaps I get absolutely tired of it (or find a good hack - and an ugly
> patch). I did manage to learn a bit more about union-builds in general. So,
> that's a silver lining.
>
> Also, your work on guix-android seems so very cool! Please keep up the
> great work!
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:28 PM Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi Prafulla,
>>
>> Le 26 septembre 2020 03:31:38 GMT-04:00, Prafulla Giri <
>> pratheblackdiamond <at> gmail.com> a écrit :
>> >Another information:
>> >
>> >I have other programs on my foreign system (installed via guix) that
>> >produce sound well, without any issues. They include:
>> >espeak and kdenlive.
>> >
>> >Also, I did try making the union-build use copies instead of symlinks
>> >using
>> >(union-build ... #:symlink copy-recursively) but that didn't work out
>> >either.
>> >
>> >Now, I'm going to take a look at fixing the pkg-config rules, and will
>> >be
>> >updating this thread should that resolve this issue.
>> >
>> >On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:21 PM Prafulla Giri
>> ><pratheblackdiamond <at> gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> I forgot to mention, but the union-build works. If one `guix build`s
>> >the
>> >> union package, and cd into the /gnu/store/...-union-build, one will
>> >see
>> >> that things are there as it should be (lib/normal-alsa-*.so and
>> >> lib/alsa-lib/*pulse*.so).
>> >>
>> >> It's just that aegisub seems to be looking from the
>> >> /gnu/store/normal-alsa-lib-dir instead of
>> >/gnu/store/union-alsa-package.
>> >>
>>
>> I think the issue with the union-build is that it is completely ignored:
>> alsa doesn't look in it's current directory for plugins, but in the
>> directory where it's been configured (at build time) to look for.
>>
>> On the Guix System, there is a service that creates a /etc/asound.conf,
>> which references alsa-plugins:pulseaudio. Maybe you actually want to
>> configure that? Maybe try to copy this to a new file .asoundrc:
>>
>> pcm_type.pule {
>>   lib "/home/foo/.guix-profile/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so"
>> }
>>
>> ctl_type.pulse {
>>   lib"/home/foo/.guix-profile/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so"
>> }
>>
>> pcm.!default {
>>   type pulse
>> }
>>
>> ctl.!default {
>>   type pulse
>> }
>>
>

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