On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, David Baron wrote: > While the audio and MIDI still do not work on my linux, I downloaded a few > packages to look at them. Gmorgan, Audour, etc. > > Once they FINALLY untar, the seemingly simple and by now familiar: > ./configure; make; make install. NO GO. > > 1. Configure--usually looking for a certain automake version. This test is > in error, but easy enough to fix up. The version string is defined up front. > Edite to what you have on your system. Now, if you've installed any needed > libraries, configure should run. while this may work in some cases, most of the time it will not. do upgrade your autotools (automake, autoconf, aclocal) to the required or *a newer version* to save you and the developers a lot of hassle. (if you do have a newer version than the one required, the hack you mention will work.) yes, the autotools are a pain in the ass sometimes. but when i skim over a 10000-line generated configure script, i'm really thankful i don't have to do all that by hand! they are damn hard to use, but then they are soooo useful. when i see a program like ardour with a zillion dependencies, header files and whatnot compile without errors (although it takes a while to get there), i'm really glad to just do "autogen.sh && configure && make -j4 && make install" instead of building it all by hand... > 2. Make--complains about locale, defaults at least, requesting en_us, etc. > Only problem with this is that my environment IS set that way. Then it > complains about recursive directory references and aborts. A subdirectory > with the same name of one of its ancestors is not necessarily a recursive > reference so this is also a programming error. So I rerun with a > do-it-anyway option -B. Still gets to some point and aborts. weird. i have never seen this. does it happen with all packages you try to compile? then my guess is something's wrong with your system. which distro? > 3. Make install--actually the same comments apply. After that, obviously > will not install what was not compiled. at least this works as expected ;) best, joern
