Re: Any users of atomic_ops?

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

sorry, for not replying to the toplevel post with a top-level reply,
I've already deleted the top-level post.

> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 21:06 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> PulseAudio recently added a dependency to the atomic_ops package. As I
>> can't find this package in Fedora, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I suppose I
>> could put up a review request with an rpm for it, but the package is a
>> bit odd so I'm considering another approach.
>>
>> atomic_ops seems to be only intended for static link use, as it doesn't
>> build any .so files. An idea I had was to just include this tarball in
>> the PulseAudio package and get a bit creative with the build process.
>> The metacity package used this approach for libcm, so it's not unheard of...
>>
>> Comments? Flames? Public flogging?
>>

Yes, please don't just package atomic_ops first and then PulseAudio,
preferably making atomic_ops produce a .so in the process (I can help
here, drop me a mail or put me in the CC for the review request).

Regards,

Hans