Re: [Audacity-devel] Audacity not building on Ubuntu 12.04 (released 1st of March)
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From: Michael C. <mc...@gm...> - 2012-03-08 17:34:11
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Benjamin Drung <bd...@ub...> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 08.03.2012, 16:33 +0000 schrieb James Crook: >> >> Benjamin, >> >> In http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484 >> >> You wrote: Audacity 2.0.0rc8 fails to build on Ubuntu 12.04 which >> ships glib 2.31.20 >> >> Would you say this is a show stopper, a P1 bug? > > Yes. > >> It sounds to me like it makes Audacity unusable on current Ubuntu. If >> it is a P1, it is a major hassle only finding out about it at the end >> of the release cycle. We need to put some process in place, such as a >> commitment to be ubuntu-ready on an ongoing basis, because by my >> reckoning Ubuntu is too important to treat as a poor cousin to >> Windows. > > I setup a daily build of Audacity on Ubuntu [1] long time ago. This > personal package archive (PPA) catches build failures of Audacity on a > daily basis. The version 2.31.20 of glib was uploaded to Ubuntu only > three days ago. Due to no commits to the Audacity svn in the last day, > the PPA didn't catch the build failure yet. > >> Vaughan is RM, and he will decide what we do from here, after we've >> heard more clearly where we stand on Ubuntu. >> >> If it is only a concern for upcoming releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 12.04 >> is an unstable beta and came out on the 1st of March, then we perhaps >> rate its severity on how far away a widely used stable release based >> on 12.04 is likely to be. Is Audacity compilation OK on the current >> stable 11.10? If we are releasing a beta that addresses this in May, >> is it valid to rate 484 as a P3? > > This build failure only affects Ubuntu 12.04, but not Ubuntu 11.10 or > earlier. The build failure is not Ubuntu specific. It will affect all > Linux distributions that will ship this glib version or newer. Probably > all upcoming Linux distributions will be affected (like Fedora, etc). As I understand it from the other thread, this glib issue only affects wxGTK. Since we don't have wxGTK in our tarballs and it is built against some system wxGTK, how is this affected by 2.0.0 rc8 tarballs? If only wxGTK is an issue then we may be fine with rc8. Michael |