Hum... It was also hard to me to install Ardour. However, using Mandrake 9.2, I've updated autoconf to 2.5 and it worked fine! Remember that you must install JACK server first! However, I'm having problems using Ardour... when I run jackd and then run Ardour the application starts normally... After making some work it just goes down because JACK server crashes and abort. By now I'm going fine using Audacity for multi-track recording and Rosegarden for MIDI compose... If you know any other good software for multi-track recording I'll be happy to try them... I'm also having troubles with Protux... :-| and it's very hard to use... I believe that the idea of JMB engine is well thought, but to make the first steps with the program is harder to learn how to use it... Cheers, Carlos On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 09:07, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: > 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 > >
