#42986: openal-soft @1.15.1: complains about pulseaudio (@5.0) not being built with capabilities support -------------------------------------+---------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: ionic@… Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.2.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: openal-soft pulseaudio | -------------------------------------+---------------------- Comment (by devans@…): Replying to [comment:18 ionic@…]:

I did re-enable capabilities support, but this didn't change anythings. Capabilities are plainly not supported on OS X.

Indeed. libcap is required for pulseaudio to enable this feature regardless of the --with/without-caps option. From a recent build log {{{ checking for library containing cap_init... no checking sys/capability.h usability... no checking sys/capability.h presence... no checking for sys/capability.h... no }}} AFAIK libcap is currently only available on Linux platforms where the following requirements must be met: * A recent linux kernel (2.6.24+) built with POSIX Capabilities enabled * A file system that supports extended attributes such as ext3 * the libcap2 user space package That given, doesn't seem like something that you'll see on Mac OS X any time soon. I suggest that about the only practical thing to do is to track down and disable the obnoxious message which is really out of place here. For a good run down on what it's all about see http://www.friedhoff.org/posixfilecaps.html -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42986#comment:19> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X