[linux-audio-user] building fst fails at make install step

[Luke Yelavich]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:55:40PM EST, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I'm trying to follow Dave's instructions for building fst-1.6
> 
> http://www.djcj.org/LAU/quicktoots/toots/vst-plugins/
> 
> at the section called "Building and Installing the fst System" on my
> Gentoo laptop. Here's wht I'm doing:

<Snip>
> flash fst-1.6 $ make
> <SNIP>
> gcc -c  -I. -Iinclude -I/usr/include/wine/windows/..
> -I/usr/include/wine/windows/../.. -I/usr/include/wine/windows -g -O2
> -fPIC -I .. -I./vst  -DDLLPATH=\"/usr/lib/wine\"
> -DLIBPATH=\"/usr/local/lib\"  -D_REENTRANT -o fstconfig.o fstconfig.c
> gcc -o fstconfig fstconfig.o -L. -lfst 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mark/data/VST/fst-1.6/fst'
> flash fst-1.6 $ su -
> Password: 
> root at flash ~ # cd ~mark/data/VST/fst-1.6
> root at flash /home/mark/data/VST/fst-1.6 # make install
> /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> ./mkinstalldirs: ./mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory
> make: *** [install-pkgconfigDATA] Error 127
> root at flash /home/mark/data/VST/fst-1.6 # 

The mkinstalldirs file in the tarball is missing. Either grab this file from
another file, or search through your autoconf files for a copy of this file.
found in /usr/share/automake-ver where ver is the version of automake you
have installed.

> There is the one mistake in the instructions on the QuickToot page where
> it seems to tell me to run fixheaders from the wrong place, but I
> haven't figured out how to get past this.

You need to get the vst header files, and put them in the vst subdirectory
of the tarball. Then from the vst directory, run ../fixheaders. However, there
is more you have to do to the headers. I am not at my audio box right now, and
can't remember off the top of my head.
-- 
Luke Yelavich
http://www.audioslack.com
luke at audioslack.com