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 >
