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sound: Refuse to start with SDL 2.0.6.

It's known now (#945) that the game is unusable with SDL 2.0.6 due to
a crash bug in the sound code. To avoid recurring bug reports about
this, add a guard in the sound startup code that will cause the game
startup to abort if the user has v2.0.6 installed.

--- a/src/i_sdlsound.c

+++ b/src/i_sdlsound.c

@@ -1071,10 +1071,21 @@

 {

     int i;

+    // SDL 2.0.6 has a bug that makes it unusable.

+    if (SDL_COMPILEDVERSION == SDL_VERSIONNUM(2, 0, 6))

+    {

+        I_Error(

+            "I_SDL_InitSound: "

+            "You are trying to launch with SDL 2.0.6 which has a known bug "

+            "that makes the game crash. Please either downgrade to "

+            "SDL 2.0.5 or upgrade to 2.0.7. See the following bug for some "

+            "additional context:\n"

+            "<https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/issues/945>");

+    }

+

     use_sfx_prefix = _use_sfx_prefix;

     // No sounds yet

-

     for (i=0; i<NUM_CHANNELS; ++i)

     {

         channels_playing[i] = NULL;