9 Aug
2005
9 Aug
'05
12:31 p.m.
Thanks for trying, Fernando. If I lived closer (than N. Idaho) I'd come
down there and sweep the floors or restore user's files from backup to
give you a little time to do more of the great work you've done putting
Planet CCRMA together so "Linux challenged" users like me can do more
music and less computer. I did CAD application and OS support for 15
years at HP/Agilent and I know how little time there is left over after
just keeping the wheels on! Hang in there. 8^)
Here's more of a philosophical question. Can someone help me understand
why installing an app like Gnome Wave Cleaner on a "standard", clean
Linux distribution like my Fedora Core 3 from CCRMA is so d??n
difficult? Shouldn't all these libraries, etc just already be there? I
can maybe understand the unusual ones like "fftw" (Fastest Fourier
Transform in the West) but why all the missing Gnome components? It's
probably only me that's missing something but it seems to me that Linux
is never going to become even close to mainstream (maybe we don't want
it to be mainstream) until it gets a good, consistent across all
distros, way of installing apps that just works.
I love using Linux and, as always, I'm open to feedback, suggestions,
education, etc. (Especially education!) 8^)
Thanks,
Mike
Mike Jewell
One-Up Audio
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:26 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:23, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
wrote:
Hmmm, he must have gotten it from somewhere else,
it is not part of
Planet CCRMA (not because I don't want it to be, just no time to do it
so far). Sorry.
I do have a spec file and just tried to rebuild it to try to remember
why I had not finished packaging it and it stops with some build error:
checking how to run the C preprocessor
biquad.c: In function `filter_audio':
biquad.c:64: warning: implicit declaration of function
`load_filter_preferences'biquad.c:126: warning: unused variable
`p_first'
biquad.c:59: warning: unused variable `i_left'
biquad.c:59: warning: unused variable `i_right'
biquad.c:61: warning: unused variable `filtered_sample'
biquad.c: At top level:
biquad.c:247: error: conflicting types for 'load_filter_preferences'
biquad.c:64: error: previous implicit declaration of
'load_filter_preferences' was here
Hmmm, does not look difficult to fix, apparently a double declaration.
-- Fernando 
9 Aug
9 Aug
12:54 p.m.
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 07:31 -0700, Mike Jewell wrote:
Here's more of a philosophical question. Can
someone help me
understand why installing an app like Gnome Wave Cleaner on a
"standard", clean Linux distribution like my Fedora Core 3 from CCRMA
is so d??n difficult? Shouldn't all these libraries, etc just already
be there? I can maybe understand the unusual ones like
"fftw" (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West) but why all the missing
Gnome components? It's probably only me that's missing something but
it seems to me that Linux is never going to become even close to
mainstream (maybe we don't want it to be mainstream) until it gets a
good, consistent across all distros, way of installing apps that just
works.
Your FC3 should have come with a Gnome desktop by default, so all those
libraries should already be present.
Besides, doesn't RPM automatically resolve dependencies yet? You should
be able to just RPM install gnome-wave-cleaner and all the dependent
packages will be installed for you.
Lee
10 Aug
10 Aug
11:43 a.m.
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:54 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
Besides, doesn't RPM automatically resolve
dependencies yet? You should
be able to just RPM install gnome-wave-cleaner and all the dependent
packages will be installed for you.
rpm does not do this - it is just a package format. but apt and yum,
which both use (or can use) RPM as a package format, do indeed do this.
--p
9 Aug
9 Aug
5:54 p.m.
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 07:31, Mike Jewell wrote:
Here's more of a philosophical question. Can
someone help me understand
why installing an app like Gnome Wave Cleaner on a "standard", clean
Linux distribution like my Fedora Core 3 from CCRMA is so d??n
difficult? Shouldn't all these libraries, etc just already be there? I
can maybe understand the unusual ones like "fftw" (Fastest Fourier
Transform in the West) but why all the missing Gnome components? It's
probably only me that's missing something but it seems to me that Linux
is never going to become even close to mainstream (maybe we don't want
it to be mainstream) until it gets a good, consistent across all
distros, way of installing apps that just works.
I did not follow the whole thread, but... most probably there is nothing
"missing" as gnome is installed and all libraries are there (probably).
You may not be aware that most packages that deal with libraries that
can be used for development are split into two packages, the "normal"
one has all the libraries that programs that were built with this
dependency need to run, and then another package usually named
"xxx-devel" that has the stuff you need to actually _build_ packages
that need that particular library. If you are missing something try to
install NAME_OF_MISSING_LIBRARY-devel (if you find the "base" package,
of course, otherwise you will need both).
-- Fernando
I love using Linux and, as always, I'm open to
feedback, suggestions,
education, etc. (Especially education!) 8^)
Thanks,
Mike
Mike Jewell
One-Up Audio
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:26 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:23, Fernando
Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
Hmmm, he must have gotten it from somewhere else,
it is not part of
Planet CCRMA (not because I don't want it to be, just no time to do it
so far). Sorry.
I do have a spec file and just tried to rebuild it to try to remember
why I had not finished packaging it and it stops with some build error:
checking how to run the C preprocessor
biquad.c: In function `filter_audio':
biquad.c:64: warning: implicit declaration of function
`load_filter_preferences'biquad.c:126: warning: unused variable
`p_first'
biquad.c:59: warning: unused variable `i_left'
biquad.c:59: warning: unused variable `i_right'
biquad.c:61: warning: unused variable `filtered_sample'
biquad.c: At top level:
biquad.c:247: error: conflicting types for 'load_filter_preferences'
biquad.c:64: error: previous implicit declaration of
'load_filter_preferences' was here
Hmmm, does not look difficult to fix, apparently a double declaration.
-- Fernando
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