bug#53591: Audacity can't find FFmpeg

2022-01-27 Thread Leo Famulari
Between Audacity 2.4.2 and 3.1.3, upstream changed how Audacity finds FFmpeg. It no longer links to it but instead loads it at runtime: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/2161 I detailed my hapless attempts to do that in the upstream bug report: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issu

bug#53591: Audacity can't find FFmpeg

2022-01-27 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 06:14:30PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > Although Audacity 3.1.3 includes FFmpeg in its direct dependencies, it > does not keep a reference to it and cannot find it at runtime. One consequence is that Audacity can't read Ogg files containing Opus or Vorbis audio, or any othe

bug#53591: Audacity can't find FFmpeg

2022-01-27 Thread Leo Famulari
Although Audacity 3.1.3 includes FFmpeg in its direct dependencies, it does not keep a reference to it and cannot find it at runtime. This is a regression from Audacity 2.4.2. -- $ git describe v1.3.0-15323-gf00ed43653 $ guix gc --references $(./pre-inst-env guix build --no-grafts audacity) |