23 Jun
2003
23 Jun
'03
8:23 p.m.
I am trying to install MusE, which means installing Jack as well.
The first issue that I have run into is that MusE requires glibc 2.3.1 or better to
compile. My RH 8.0 has glibc 2.2.93-5. Will updating to 2.3.1 cause my previously
installed binaries (i.e., the entire system) to stop working? Or is 2.3.1
backwardlycompatible with 2.2.93-5? Or can you have both libraries on one system
simultaneously? In other words, what are the ramifications of updating glibc?
Then there are the same considerations for updating qt 3.0.5-17 to 3.1.0 or better, except
that it is my impression that qt is much less central than glibc. Would anything
(everything?) need to be recompiled with this new version of qt?
Another issue relevant to both of the above is the question of RPM vs source installation.
There are i386 +/or i686 RPMs for both qt and glibc on the Red Hat site. Any suggestions
as to whether I should install from source or from those RPMs? Which of the RPMs would be
better to install on a Celeron 300A?
Finally, in preparing to install MusE I installed fluidsynth and
libsndfile. Fluidsynth seemed to go without a hitch (tho I haven't used it yet) but
libsndfile's configuration summary suggested that I add /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig to
the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable because other programs compiled against libsndfile might need
it.
Sure enough, when <./configure>ing jack, it couldn't find sndfile.pc, and while
<make>ing jack, it exited with an error. I tried:
env $PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
and it listed all the env variables with the appropriate entry appended. Thinking that
everything was set, I tried to re<./configure> and <make> jack, but it exited
with the same error. Double checking with <env> showed that the new entry had
disappeared. I double checked this, and every time I set the variable with env, it lists
it once, then it disappears on further <env>s.
Anyone know what is going on here?
Thanks,
Barton
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