Suggestion: shairport-sync-minimal for OpenWrt packages feed

[probonopd]

shairport-sync is now in the official OpenWrt packages feed at https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/sound/shairport-sync; however, it has dbus and avahi-daemon as dependencies which is quite some overhead for tiny embedded systems. Hence it would be great to have a shairport-sync-minimal package that does not have these dependencies; along the lines of https://github.com/probonopd/shairport-sync-for-openwrt/blob/2.1/Makefile

[mikebrady]

Hi there. I've been trying to fix this with a fancy installer package, but I've failed. Perhaps a better approach is for someone (would you be willing to try it yourself?) to submit an alternative package, maybe called shairport-sync-tiny. Ted Hess, who you've been in contact with has done quite a bit of work on the "official" full-fat one, especially on the startup script, using procd, (though I think there's one tiny little bug in it). Perhaps you would have a look as his approach.

[mikebrady]

Hi there. Just in case you missed it (and sorry for the delay in replying) there is just such a package now in trunk OpenWrt.

[probonopd]

Thanks mikebrady, that is very cool. I noticed it but couldn't test it so far as the trunk images for my platforms have a too large kernel size and images don't get built. So, is there a package for chaos calmer, too?

Update: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/commit/d1dda2700a47504568c0cf041c10b137e6784051 seems to have the patch, so I can backport it myself.

[mikebrady]

I don't think that the Chaos Calmer package does the minimal thing, but I have had success back as far as Barrier Breaker with a package of my own. It might take me a couple of days to push it out onto this repository.

[probonopd]

...or so I thought. Running into an error,

make[6]: Entering directory '/home/travis/build/probonopd/shairport-sync-for-openwrt/sdk/OpenWrt-SDK-15.05-ar71xx-generic_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2.Linux-x86_64/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_uClibc-0.9.33.2/gdbm-1.11/po'
*** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch: using a Makefile.in.in from gettext version 0.18 but the autoconf macros are from gettext version 0.19.

Full log: https://api.travis-ci.org/jobs/100114089/log.txt?deansi=true

Code: https://github.com/probonopd/shairport-sync-for-openwrt/blob/mini/.travis.yml

[mikebrady]

That's great work – it'll take me a little while to digest it all.

[mikebrady]

Hi there. I've created a new branch here called barrier-breaker and it should also work with Chaos Calmer. Could you give it a try and let me know (the instructions have been updated).

[probonopd]

Argh, getting *** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch: using a Makefile.in.in from gettext version 0.18 but the autoconf macros are from gettext version 0.19 now.

Full build logs: https://travis-ci.org/probonopd/shairport-sync-for-openwrt/builds/102962296

[mikebrady]

Thanks. I'll have a look...

[mikebrady]

Ok, so I've had no trouble building a "Chaos Calmer" version of OpenWrt with Shairport Sync using the barrier-breaker branch of this repository. I used a clean download of Chaos Calmer and updated all feeds as described in the instructions here. The target device was the default. My building platform is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with all updates. I've never used Travis CI, I'm afraid.

[mikebrady]

BTW, see #13.

[mikebrady]

Have you tried requiring the Trusty (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) distribution in your Travis build specification?

[probonopd]

Excellent suggestion, thanks. Will try that.

[mikebrady]

I got a Travis CI workflow working, I think, with Barrier Breaker. I borrowed liberally from your .travis.yml file, but departed from it where I didn't understand it. Thanks for all the work you've done on it. I've learned a lot.

[probonopd]

Thank you very much. Works for me as well now. Binaries for barrier breaker on, e.g., https://github.com/probonopd/shairport-sync-for-openwrt/releases/download/20160119/shairport-sync-mini_2.6-1_ar71xx.ipk