[Openal] Null Pointer crash in Linux openal

[Sven Panne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openal-bounces at opensource.creative.com 
> [mailto:openal-bounces at opensource.creative.com] On Behalf Of 
> Thilo Schulz
> Sent: Mittwoch, 23. August 2006 12:13
> To: openal at opensource.creative.com
> Subject: Re: [Openal] Null Pointer crash in Linux openal
> [...]
> I am using Gentoo Linux kernel 2.6.16 on a x86_64 arch I 
> know, it's not exactly small, but the program that is having 
> the deadlocks is:
> http://icculus.org/quake3/
> [...]

FYI: I've tested the latest and greatest downloadable installer of
ioquake3 with OpenAL from the trunk, and I had no problems at all. No
crashes, no deadlocks, etc. Can you still reproduce the problems you
had?

One minor point: The default dynamic OpenAL library ioquake3 tries to
load is "libopenal.so.0", but the trunk has a major version of 1
nowadays. For ioquake3's purposes these are compatible, and in general I
propose to drop the major version number from the filename when
dlopening OpenAL. I know that the exact name can be changed via a
configuration file, but running out-of-the-box with a recent OpenAL
version would be nice.

Cheers,
   S.