[LAU] building a debian system for audio

Free Ekanayaka free.ekanayaka at gmail.com
Thu May 24 06:28:31 EDT 2007


Hi,

|--==> Paul Davis writes:

  PD> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 12:14 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
  >>That's what I had to do in order to get Ardour2 going, since the Debian package uses SYSLIBS=1 and thusly makes it non-functional on my machine.
  >>
  >>I tried checkinstall too, but that had issues: apparently the Ardour2 scons target tries to make symlinks for /usr/bin/gcc, and dpkg rightly refused to allow it to something so dangerous.

  PD> THIS IS NOT TRUE. 

  PD> its also the 2nd time that its been claimed. please either point to the
  PD> line in our scons build system where this happens, or stop claiming that
  PD> it does.

  PD> I am very disappointed to hear that the Debian package is using
  PD> SYSLIBS=1. This means that we will refuse to support any Debian users
  PD> that have issues with Ardour. The Debian packager(s) have been told
  PD> about this in the past, and we made the consequences of their choices
  PD> clear.

I was not aware of the problem (I've stepped into Debian's ardour
maintenance only very recently). A bug was opened two days ago

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425507

I'm going to fix it today. Ciao!

Free



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