Re: [Audacity-quality] Fwd: Re: [Audacity-devel] website update mockup & 2.0 release

[Paul L. <pau...@bo...>]

On 8 Mar 2012, at 18:11, Gale Andrews wrote:
> 
> | From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> 
> | Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:11:31 -0800
> | Subject: [Audacity-quality] Fwd: Re: [Audacity-devel] website update mockup & 2.0 release
>> D'oh, just now got the notice that this bounced!
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Audacity-devel] website update mockup & 2.0 release
>> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:06:21 -0800
>> From: Vaughan Johnson <vau...@sb...>
>> To: aud...@li...
>> 
>> Putting -quality back on this thread, as we need Gale's input on this,
>> and he'll see it there sooner (as I understand it).
>> 
>> - V
>> 
>> On 3/7/2012 4:04 PM, Vaughan Johnson wrote:
>>> On 3/7/2012 1:19 PM, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
>>>> On 7 March 2012 20:56, Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> wrote:
>>>>> On 3/7/2012 6:48 AM, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> 
> Re:
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/source-v
> 
> In System Requirements we could delete "Audacity runs best with at 
> least 64 MB RAM and a 300 MHz processor." It's nonsense for Windows
> and Mac.  The links are enough.  
> 
> 
>>>>>> On the new sourcecode page
>>>>>> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/source-v
>>>>>> there is no mention of libasound in the dependencies.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Neither does http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_source. So
>>>>> this is OT to changes for 2.0 release.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Debian it is possible to build Audacity without libasound, but
>>>>>> sound does not work (no audio devices).
>>>>>> For ALSA support on Debian, libasound2-dev is required.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please suggest a wording of what you'd like to see added, and where.
>>>> 
>>>> As you're revamping the page I thought it'd be worth mentioning now.
>>> 
>>> No problem, just prioritizing what other changes to make, beyond the
>>> essential and already agreed. :-)
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I've only ever built on Debian and Ubuntu so I don't know if this is
>>>> specific to Linux, or if it also applies to Mac OS X, or if it only
>>>> applies to Debian based distributions.
>>>> I'd have thought something like below.
>>>> Steve
>>>> ---------------------------------
>>>> 
>>>> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/source-v
>>>> 
>>>> How to Compile Audacity
>>>> Dependencies
>>>> 
>>>> The wxWidgets library is required. Audacity 2.0.0 requires wxGTK 2.8.12.
>>>> + libasound is also required (for Linux / any other applicable OS).
> 
> On:
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Linux#Prerequisites
> 
> it says libsndfile is required, not optional. 
> 
> I think beyond agreeing what libs are required, it's futile to mention 
> specifically just three of all the "optional" libraries. We could just say:
> 
> "Other optional libraries are included in Audacity obtained from SVN."
> 
> These are dependencies for Ubuntu-supplied *packages* of Audacity:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/audacity
> 
> including libasound2. 
> 
> I have never consciously run into a libasound issue compiling Audacity
> on Ubuntu 10.10; libasound is not in our configure script so it is not on:
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Linux .
> 
> Can you explain more, Steve? 
> 
> I doubt libasound is needed to compile Audacity on Mac, but have Cc'd
> Paul. It is not required on Windows (it is not in lib-src).
> 

I'm sorry but I can't help here. I can try building it at the weekend without libasound and see what happens.

Paul.