On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:10:35AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > 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. Awesome! So is 0.116.1 the most stable, advised JACK version to use? Second question: if I download (or build) a Lenny-backported package of 0.116.1 on a Lenny system (backporting, basically), will all my other existing JACK apps still work? Or do I need to rebuild all of those too? > > > 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. What steps, specifically? I'd be willing to do them if they're not too invasive. Then again, if I can get a packaged version I'd much rather do that, and stay within the package manager's system. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
