[LAU] aeolus, compiled and repos

[David Kastrup]

tom haddington <meshugga42 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, All--
>
> i'm running Ubuntu Studio 16.04, for starters.  The Aeolus that came with
> the distro simply closes upon starting.  It also crashes patchage when
> doing so.  i really got no error, not even a seg fault, except that the
> terminal told me that Aeolus couldn't read ~/.aeolus-presets.
>
> So, i went to the website and downloaded the latest version.  After
> compiling.  Aeolus would start, but no stops are displayed.  The terminal
> tells me, "Can't open 'stops/Aeolus/definition' for reading."

Which sounds like it does not find the stop definitions relative to
where it expects to find them.

> This is very unfortunate.  A few years ago, i gave a temperament lecture
> and relied heavily on Aeolus.  i'd like to know that i can give it again.
> Any help would be appreciated.

Try 18.04.  The version in 16.04 does not reserve enough stack space for
its Midi(?) thread on 64bit architectures.  By the way, mentioning the
architecture would have been useful.

-- 
David Kastrup