Re: [ecasound] problems compiling ecasound

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Subject: Re: [ecasound] problems compiling ecasound
From: Jeremy Hall (jhall@UU.NET )
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:59:40 EET

uh

I'd suggest not putting /usr/local/bin in ld.so.conf. /usr/local/lib
maybe, but not the bin.

_J

In the new year, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> It's not everyday you get to complain about your own software. ;)
>
> Yesterday I tried to install/compile ecasound to a freshly installed
> RedHat6.1 box. I stumbled into the following problems:
>
> - /usr/local/bin not specified in /etc/ld.so.conf
> - the latest ecasound-RPMs requires ncurses-5.x while Redhat
> still comes with ncurses4.x -> I've downgraded all my systesm
> to ncurses so this shouldn't cause problems in the future
> - GNU libtool wasn't installed even though I chose all development
> related packages
> - RedHat installed Qt into /usr/lib/qt-2.0.1 and libraries
> to /usr/lib/qt-2.0.1/lib. This caused all kind of problems.
> At the end I managed to recompile the rpm packages with the
> following:
>
> --cut--
> export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-2.0.1
> export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/qt-2.0.1/lib
> rpm --rebuild ecasound-1.7.1d11-1.src.pm
> --cut--
>
> If you've had similar problems with other Linux distros,
> I'd like to know about them. My aim is to make ecasound as
> compatible as possible. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to
> be an easy task.
>
> --
> Kai Vehmanen <kaiv@wakkanet.fi> -------- CS, University of Turku, Finland
> . http://www.wakkanet.fi/ecasound/ - linux multitrack audio processing
> . http://www.wakkanet.fi/sculpscape/ - ambient-idm-rock-... mp3/ra/wav
>
>

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