Moving Past libxml++-2.6
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Hello,
This app is of vital importance to me as it's the only method of altering my Tascam 16x08's settings on my Linux systems, in my case Arch Linux.
libxml++-2.6 was released on May 5th 2004; it's hyper old at this point and requiring it for building and usage is preventing me from adjusting my Tascam on a fresh system.
What, if any, are the plans for this app to get an overhaul to a more current version of libxml++ so it's lifespan can be extended?
I'll contribute at least $100 if you're willing to put in the dev effort to start using the newer versions of libxml++ that are natively included in most modern distros, currently 3.2.4. Thanks!
Hello @dhtseany
Not sure, but I think libxml++2.6 to libxml++5.0 are API compatible to libxml++2.6. So this might be just a matter, for Arch, of modifying the configure.ac file to require the version that is on Arch. On Ubuntu kinetic, this seems to be transparent.
Maybe I'm wrong, but you can give a try on changing the line 27 of configure.ac and then run autoreconf to regenerate a fresh configure script.
@be1 Thanks for the tip! I've been playing with your suggestion for the last hour or so and while I'm able to clear the hurdle with ./configure I'm still not able to build because the version (2.6) seems to have been hard-coded into the app and in turn make isn't able to complete the make process. Any other advice for patching a fix to get it to not reference 2.6 would be appreciated.
@dhtseany I have some spare time and I will install an Arch in a VM, then try to make it work...
EDIT: I had troubles with Arch, but I eventually could make tascam-gtk compile with libxml++3.x on my personal repo :
@dhtseany Please do git clone https://github.com/be1/tascam-gtk.git somewhere else, then run autoreconf, then ./configure then make, then please test if the generated binary ./tascamgtk works (I could not test it, because my Arch doe not have a graphical environment).
Tell me if something goes wrong.
@be1 Your efforts are most appreciated, I can confirm that your fork works and I was able to build and run tascam-gtk with libxml++ 3.2.4-1.
As I maintain other packages on the AUR I planned to submit our finished product for others to benefit with an easier installation experience, at least for Arch users and since I use this quite often I don't mind keeping it patched.
Can you please clarify what changes were made that allowed 3.2.4 to be used? I imagine you updated the source to reflect the updated version numbers, is this something we can do a pull request that @onkelDead might accept? Ideally I'd like to simply use the primary repository instead of your fork. Thanks again!
@dhtseany this was not very hard to patch. See be1@5e1f164
Unlike Arch, several distributions seem to ship a modified version of libxml++2.6 instead of mutiple versioned libxml++.
So I would say it is not a good idea to submit my patch to @onkelDead repository as is, because it will fail to build on those distributions. The best would be to make configure script to allow choosing the libxml++ version to use, but I'm not used to autotools (autoconf / automake) and will have difficulties to achieve that.
EDIT: I am willing to achieve multiple libxml++ version detection. Would be happy for any compensation, as mentioned before.
@be1 I really appreciate your work, many thanx.
I've validated #25 and will apply it to the master.
Greets, Detlef
Thanks @onkelDead ! Your application is a must-have for us having a Tascam US-16x08, yet. Thanks to you!