[linux-audio-dev] Building qarecord and alsamodularsynth

Dave Robillard drobilla at connect.carleton.ca
Tue Mar 2 13:28:12 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 05:46, Matthias Nagorni wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Dave Robillard wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 23:53, Mark Johnathan Greenaway wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:36:42PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > > > > I'm quite a fan of alsamodularsynth and have been recommending it to
> > > > > friends. The only problem I have with it is that rather than use
> > > > > automake/autoconf for building it has Makefiles that only work without
> > > > > editing under SuSE. Of course, editing the Makefiles to get it to build
> > > > > on other distributions and installing the required development packages
> > > > > is trivial.
> 
> You only have to edit the library path constants at the beginning of 
> the Makefile. If you have adapted that to the requirements of your system 
> once, you can just copy and paste it in any new Makefile of any new ams 
> release. It's indeed trivial. I don't like the idea of automake/autoconf. 
> I've got the impression that these pose more problems than they are 
> actually solving. So unless somebody convinces me, I won't include this 
> mechanism into the official ams tarball. 

Fair enough.  ./configure etc. is without a doubt THE way to distribute
free software though.  Most people find it quite annoying when an app
doesn't follow the 'standard'.

Users simply don't like hand-editing and copying configuration files
around.  At the very simplest level I don't want to edit the Makefile to
make AMS use my preferred CFLAGS, and know where to find QT, and install
to /usr. I just want to "./configure --prefix=/usr" and be done with it.

-Dave




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