Removing daap and ruby crap from amarok


22:28 < Novell> so will this all be configurable or do I have to keep hacking files or change to some other media player ?
22:28 < markey> the latter


I guess this means I will not upgrade from 1.4.2 ever since I'm fed up with having to fix their broken crap.
Anyway, if you are like me and don't want crap you don't need and want to use amarok anyway while waiting for something better that isn't broken and hopefully with a working plugin API this is what you need to do:

Extract amarok 1.4.2 sources and go to the source dir.
Open amarok/src/configure.in.in in your favourite editor and to down to line 57 (or around there) where this code is:

if test "x$RUBY" = "xno" ; then
amarok_error_noruby=yes
DO_NOT_COMPILE="$DO_NOT_COMPILE amarok"
no_amarok=yes
fi


Change it to:

#if test "x$RUBY" = "xno" ; then
# amarok_error_noruby=yes
# DO_NOT_COMPILE="$DO_NOT_COMPILE amarok"
# no_amarok=yes
#fi


Then run:

rm -rf amarok/src/mediadevice/daap

Open amarok/src/mediadevice/Makefile.am and find the line

SUBDIRS = generic daap $(IPOD_SUBDIR) $(IFP_SUBDIR) $(NJB_SUBDIR) $(MTP_SUBDIR)

Change it to

SUBDIRS = generic $(IPOD_SUBDIR) $(IFP_SUBDIR) $(NJB_SUBDIR) $(MTP_SUBDIR)


After this, run:

make -f Makefile.cvs

This will regenerate the configure script, then just run configure as usual.

That's all folks, no daap crap or ruby required anymore. last.fm streaming and some other less useful stuff won't work without ruby however, but who cares ?
If I had a say in it, that should all be configurable at run time via a real plugin API..