[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[LoneVVolf]

On 07-03-17 10:00, Allan McRae wrote:
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> Upstream changed to pulseaudio by default. Arch follows upstream
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> You can compile firefox yourself to set it being alsa only.
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> A
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Allan,

if we really want to follow firefox upstream, we should :
- stop replacing the libraries upstream bundles with system libs,
- disable gold linker
- disable pie
- disable rust support

etc.

We don't follow upstream firefox now, do you have other reasons to leave 
out alsa support ?

Lone_Wolf




from firefox PKGBUILD :


ac_add_options --enable-gold
ac_add_options --enable-pie
ac_add_options --enable-rust


# System libraries
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-icu
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman