Re: getting jack 0.107 working with cclients compiled against earlier versions

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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?

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