Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: ardour https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189315 ------- Additional Comments From green@xxxxxxxxxx 2006-04-21 08:09 EST ------- (In reply to comment #1) > Are you aware that by default ardour's build system will build and statically > link to several libraries included in the release tarball which may already be > packaged in FE. The packaging guidelines say something about this as I recall. I looked into this a little. The ardour sources are bundled with versions of libsigc++, libgtkmm, and other libraries not currently packaged for FC/E. The packaging guidelines say that packages should only link against system libraries, not private versions of their own libraries. However, I think we should make an exception in this case. Here are my reasons: - The versions of these libraries are very different from the versions packaged in Fedora (by major version numbers). - The libraries have been modified by the ardour authors. - The ardour authors only support the use of these statically linked modified libraries. - The ardour authors support these libraries within ardour as if it were their own application code. Updating ardour to use the system libraries would be a major development effort and would not have the support of the upstream project. I think the fact that these are statically linked into the app (making it impossible for another app to use my mistake) is also a mitigating factor here. Please make an exception in this case. Forcing ardour to use system versions of these libraries would be counter-productive. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.