-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:04:28AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 14:55 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 schrieb Danni Coy: > > > > Is there a way to get 0.107 working with clients compiled against > > > > older versions of jack? > > > > Failing that, would I be able to get all these apps to work again > > > > against the new version of jack if I simply build my own packages > > > > from source debs, or would I run into further trouble? > > > yes start a jack client that is not working from the command line see what > > > version of jack it is trying to connect to find that file > > > libjack-[something].so and remove it - replace it with a symlink to version > > > you just installed. > > > Its a dirty hack but it seems to work often enough. > > > > This is even more a trick from the > > hope-you-know-what-you-are-doing-department. > > actually, its from > hope-you-know-what-you-are-doing-department-and-sorry-you-run-debian > department. > > i have absolutely nothing personal against the debian JACK packager, but > words cannot begin to express the appalling state of affairs that the > misguided addition of -VERSION to the JACK library name has caused for > Debian users of JACK, along with most Ubuntu and other > derived-distributions. i would say we see at least 1-2 people per week > on the #ardour IRC channel who face the problem caused by this decision. > Even though it has been fixed now, its effects will linger on for at > least another year, perhaps even more. its a very frustrating thing for > me as a JACK developer to see different people bumping into this over > and over again, a situation that makes it appear that JACK has design > problems when all it really suffers from is a package design error. > I am very glad it has been fixed! Would recommending that people upgrade to sid solve this problem? - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG++cie8HF+6xeOIcRAhwLAKCrjq+1/4A6TE9/FHMqMECUNcq3wACgoGCs Mi1d2cSfz+CmGH6u7gymGpM= =m+mM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user