On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:19 PM, lanas wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 19:46:11 -0500, > Paul Davis wrote : > >>> I'm using a >>> rather 'old' Ardour version eg. 2.4.1. > >> i believe that the question was answered, but here's one for you: what >> is the justification for continuing to use such an ancient version of >> Ardour? there are probably 300-400 bugs fixed since then, some of them >> very serious ones. > > I'm not too keen about updating Fedora 8. ÂEverything works OK. ÂWhen I > want to record things it works. ÂI have seen too numerous problems when > doing other updates. > > But I would like to get bug fixes and I'm quite interested in trying > out the upcoming new Ardour with MIDI sequencing support. > > I used to build my own Linux systems (LFS, BLFS), some 8 years ago, for > both home and work. This is how I started with Linux MIDI. ÂI've seen > some software that is difficult to build, but not that much, all in > all. ÂI have never built Ardour. ÂAre the requierements flexible enough > to make it compile-able using gcc 4.1.2 and GTK 2.0 ? ÂI could be > interested in compiling the latest sources. > An easy way to find out is to get a recent ardour SRPM from Fedora Koji [1], and see if it builds on your system. The audio production software variety of Fedora increased vastly since Fedora 8. Cheers, Orcan [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1320 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
