[SoX-devel] ./configure --help

[Jan Stary]

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

Jan

[Pascal Giard]

Post by Jan Stary
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.

Post by Jan Stary
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