[LAU] gentoo users help! Jack with freebob

Thomas Kuther gimpel at sonnenkinder.org
Thu May 17 10:01:57 EDT 2007


On Do, 17.05.07 15:49 mea <belgeler at seznam.cz> wrote:

> Thomas Kuther wrote:
> > On Do, 17.05.07 14:47 Thomas Kuther <gimpel at sonnenkinder.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Do, 17.05.07 14:36 mea <belgeler at seznam.cz> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello experienced gentoo users!
> >>> I am in the middle of my first gentoo install and stuck with this
> >>> problem. I am trying to compile jack with freebob enabled, emerge
> >>> --search didn't find freebob so I installed it with the classic
> >>> method configure make make install. Beforehand I had to emerge
> >>> couple of libs, and everything went fine. Then, following an
> >>> advice from the irc #gentoo_amd64 I created the
> >>> directories /etc/portage/env, /etc/portage/env/media-sound,
> >>> /etc/portage/env/media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit/ and inside
> >>> this the file jack-audio-connection-kit in which I put
> >>> EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-freebob" (I also tried --enable-libfreebob).
> >>> Afterwards I (re)emerged jack. But no avail, jackd -d freebob says
> >>> "jackd: unknown driver 'freebob'" I'd appreciate any tips, thanks
> >>> in advance,
> >>> Best
> >>> mea
> >>>
> >> Hi, try enabling the freebob useflag for jack-audio-connection-kit.
> >> The package for freebob is called libfreebob.
> >>
> >> jackd ebuild will pull that in when USE="freebob" is set.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >> Tom
> > 
> > Ooops, freebob is not in main portage. It's in our pro-audio
> > overlay.
> > 
> > So do the following:
> > 
> > emerge -av layman && layman -fa pro-audio
> > 
> > Now HTH really,
> > Tom
> > 
> > 
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> Thanks,
> Should I remove the libfreebob I compiled by hand before I do that?
> Best
> M.

Yes, as I guess yours is installed to /usr/local

Theoretically your manual install should have worked too, as long jack
did find libfreebob then. Was it recognized on configure?
If yes, maybe even the ebuild method won't help - but it's worth a
try, and better to maintain updates this way ;)

Tom
 
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