On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:43 PM, James Cameron <quozl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > patches, some of which change the source code. I've reviewed the patch. > My guess is that you should consider this 0.109.2-5 as different to > 0.109.2. > > jackd is in Squeeze (testing) at 0.116.1 as the front page at jackaudio.org notes: "Nobody should be using 0.109.X". yes, it apparently works but there are so many deep, deep bugs in that version that i lost count of them. i would have been happier if ever distro had taken careful note of this and replaced 0.109 but of course ... no. > The ardour recommendation you refer to is probably the building section, > at http://www.ardour.org/building where it says "JACK 0.109 or later, > preferably 0.116 or later to avoid a buggy version of JACK (libjack)". > > Unfortunately this doesn't say exactly which bug was fixed, so it is > impractical to find whether the bug was fixed in a backport, e.g. > the Debian Lenny jackd 0.109.2-5. no, the bugs were very much deeper than any distribution patches. also, please note that (a) debian has *never* pushed their patches upstream (b) we believe we have included all the debian patches in 0.116. > Also, the ardour build on Debian may have been adjusted already to > compensate for this problem. There are about 6000 lines in the diff for > the Sid version. once again, these patches have never been pushed upstream. incredibly anti-social behaviour. >> (And presumably every Jack-enabled audio app in Debian is compiled >> against this buggy version...yuck.) > > Yes, but if the API doesn't change unduly, every Jack-enabled > audio app in Lenny should work fine with a later version of Jack, all > you have to do is install the later version and you shouldn't need to > recompile the other apps. Correct. Except that this assumes you get a later *package* version of JACK. With these "old" debian systems, you can't install JACK from source and get existing apps to work without a couple of additional steps. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
