[LAU] Building aubio [was: Ardour 2.5 released]

[drew Roberts]

On Friday 11 July 2008 14:26:50 Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> On 11 July 2008 at 7:59, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> > PACKAGERS and SOURCE BUILDERS please note that this release sees a new
> > library dependency. Ardour 2.5 requires the aubio library, which is
> > small and fast to build. Many distributions do not currently package it.
> > You know what to do ...
>
> Yup.  I downloaded, ./configure'd, and ran make.  The end of my
> configure log looks like this:
>
> **************************************************************
> Summary:
> Fftw3:                   yes (using fftw3f)
> Libsndfile:              yes
> Libsamplerate:           yes
> JACK:                    yes
> ALSA midi:               yes
> Lash:                    no
> PureData:                no
> **************************************************************
> Configuration completed successfully. Type 'make' to build aubio
>
>
> After ~220 lines of make log, make errors out like this:
>
> Making all in aubio
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/local/src/INCOMING/BUILD/aubio-0.3.2/python/aubio' if /bin/sh
> ../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src   
> -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-prototypes -Wno-missing-declarations
> -Wno-strict-aliasing  -I../../src -I../../src -I../../ext
> -I/usr/include/python2.4 -I/usr/local/include/python2.4 -I/usr/include
> -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -MT aubio_wrap.lo -MD -MP -MF
> ".deps/aubio_wrap.Tpo" -c -o aubio_wrap.lo aubio_wrap.c; \ then mv -f
> ".deps/aubio_wrap.Tpo" ".deps/aubio_wrap.Plo"; else rm -f
> ".deps/aubio_wrap.Tpo"; exit 1; fi mkdir .libs
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src -Wall -Wextra
> -Wno-missing-prototypes -Wno-missing-declarations -Wno-strict-aliasing
> -I../../src -I../../src -I../../ext -I/usr/include/python2.4
> -I/usr/local/include/python2.4 -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include -g -O2
> -MT aubio_wrap.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/aubio_wrap.Tpo -c aubio_wrap.c  -fPIC
> -DPIC -o .libs/aubio_wrap.o aubio_wrap.c:112:20: error: Python.h: No such
> file or directory
> aubio_wrap.c:719: error: expected â=â, â,â, â;â, âasmâ or
> â__attribute__â before â*â token
>
>
> All the rest of the errors look related to a missing Python.h.
> I've looked all through my distribution (Mandriva 2007.0) package
> file list and can't find a file of that name.
>
> Where *should* Python.h come from?  Maybe my installation is broken.
> At least it seems incomplete somehow.

Hey Kevin,

for me it was in:

python2.5-dev

the python dev package.

also:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2B%22Python.h%22&btnG=Google+Search
>
> I've looked through the entire (short) aubio mailing list archives
> for this, and didn't find anything that applies.
>
> I looked through the ./configure --help to see if there was a way to
> avoid depending on Python.h, but I didn't find anything obvious.
>
> Any ideas on how to get aubio to finish compiling?
>
> Thanks....
>
> --
> Kevin

all the best,

drew