Hi, regarding the distro's package policy, the make dependencies are not the same for each distro. Ubuntu/Debian ============= https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/j/jackd2/control-1.9.10%2B2015082… https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/j/jackd2/rules-1.9.10%2B20150825g… https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/jackd2 Arch Linux ========== [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /usr/src/jack2/jack2-rocketmouse/PKGBUILD pkgbase=jack2 pkgname=('jack2' 'jack2-dbus') #pkgname= # single build (overrides split) _tarname=jack pkgver=1.9.10.r177.g7bdad49 pkgrel=1 arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://jackaudio.org/" backup=(etc/security/limits.d/99-audio.conf) license=('GPL') makedepends=('python2-dbus' 'celt' 'opus' 'libsamplerate' 'git' 'libffado') source=("git+https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2" '99-audio.conf' '40-hpet-permissions.rules') md5sums=('SKIP' 'ae65b7c9ebe0fff6c918ba9d97ae342d' '471aad533ff56c5d3cbbf65ce32cadef') _gitname='jack2' _pyfix() { sed -i 's:bin/env python:bin/env python2:' \ "$pkgdir/usr/bin/jack_control" } _wafconf() { # default=64, AUR=128, kxstudio=256 --clients= # default=768, AUR=1536, kxstudio=2048 --ports-per-application= python2 waf configure --prefix=/usr \ --clients=64 --ports-per-application=768 \ --alsa --firewire $@ } _isbuild() { printf "%s\n" ${pkgname[@]} | grep -qx $1 } pkgver() { cd jack2 echo $(git describe|sed -r 's/^v//;s/([^-]*-g)/r\1/;s/-/./g') } prepare() { # we may do 2 different builds cp -r $_gitname $_gitname-dbus } build() { cd "$srcdir" # mixed dbus/classic build if _isbuild jack2; then cd $_gitname msg2 "Running Mixed D-Bus/Classic build" _wafconf --classic --dbus python2 waf build $MAKEFLAGS cd .. fi # dbus-ONLY build if _isbuild jack2-dbus; then cd $_gitname-dbus msg2 "Running D-Bus-only build" _wafconf --dbus python2 waf build $MAKEFLAGS cd .. fi } package_jack2() { ! _isbuild jack2 && return 0 pkgdesc="The next-generation JACK with SMP support" depends=('libsamplerate' 'opus' 'celt' 'libffado') optdepends=('python2-dbus: jack_control') conflicts=('jack') provides=('jack' 'jackmp' 'jackdmp' 'jackdbus') cd "$srcdir/$_gitname" python2 waf install --destdir="$pkgdir" # fix for major python transition _pyfix # configure realtime access/scheduling install -Dm644 "$srcdir/99-audio.conf" \ "$pkgdir/etc/security/limits.d/99-audio.conf" install -Dm644 "$srcdir/40-hpet-permissions.rules" \ "$pkgdir/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-hpet-permissions.rules" } package_jack2-dbus() { ! _isbuild jack2-dbus && return 0 pkgdesc="The next-generation JACK with SMP support (for D-BUS interaction only)" depends=('libsamplerate' 'celt' 'opus' 'libffado') optdepends=('python2-dbus: jack_control') conflicts=('jack' 'jack2') provides=('jack' 'jack2' 'jackmp' 'jackdmp' 'jackdbus') cd "$srcdir/$_gitname-dbus" python2 waf install --destdir="$pkgdir" _pyfix install -Dm644 "$srcdir/99-audio.conf" \ "$pkgdir/etc/security/limits.d/99-audio.conf" install -Dm644 "$srcdir/40-hpet-permissions.rules" \ "$pkgdir/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-hpet-permissions.rules" } Get the rest from ABS: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /var/abs/community/jack2/ total 16K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 Mar 9 00:11 40-hpet-permissions.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 Mar 9 00:11 99-audio.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5K Mar 9 00:11 jack1compat.diff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6K Mar 9 00:11 PKGBUILD Regards, Ralf