Re: symlinks
Jan Stary <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.sox |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Aug 11 18:27:24, [email protected] wrote: > > I don't think the complexity is worth it at all. > > > > Why not just create a symlink for play, rec, and soxi, > > and a symlink for the play.1 and rec.1 manpages, always? > > > > In the worst case, we create a needless symlink. > > (And than the user plugs a soundcard in and runs play, > > which is no longer needless, as opposed to recompiling). > > If sox was built without any audio device support, only rebuilding it is > going to make 'play' or 'rec' do anything useful. Right; sorry. Still, I would just install the symlinks anyway, even if they don't do anything. The simplification of the build/install is imho worth an extra symlink. Jan