Re: [Audacity-devel] revision 12962 does not build

[Benjamin D. <bd...@de...>]

On Do, 2013-11-21 at 15:21 +0000, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> On 21 November 2013 14:56, Benjamin Drung <bd...@de...> wrote:
> > On Do, 2013-11-21 at 02:12 +0000, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> >> revision 12962 does not build when following the instructions
> >> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CompilingAudacityForBeginners
> >>
> >> This is tested on a fresh install of Debian Stable and is due to the
> >> issue stated by Benjamin here:
> >> http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/PATCH-Use-Automake-please-test-tp7560528p7560673.html
> >>
> >> Benjamin suggested that as workaround, /usr/lib/libvamp-hostsdk.la can
> >> be removed from the system.
> >>
> >> What does libvamp-hostsdk.la do? What's it for and does anyone need it?
> >
> > The .la files are used by libtool. They are useful if you haven't
> > installed a library yet and want to link against it. They are useless
> > for installed libraries.
> >
> >> If libvamp-hostsdk.la really is an unnecessary "junk" file, then
> >> wouldn't it be better if running "Make" deleted it?
> >
> > No, not by the makefile of Audacity, because this is a system file. It
> > should be removed from the vamp-plugin-sdk package (as it is done in
> > Debian testing and newer Ubuntu versions).
> >
> >> If that is not a good idea, then is it a good idea to tell users to
> >> delete that file in the compiling instructions?
> >
> > Yes. I have reported the bugs and fixes for Ubuntu are pending. We
> > should point users to http://bugs.debian.org/730108 and
> > https://launchpad.net/bugs/1253656 and tell them to run "sudo
> > rm /usr/lib/libvamp-hostsdk.la /usr/lib/libvamp-sdk.la" until these bugs
> > are fixed.
> >
> >> I expect that many Audacity users would be nervous about deleting
> >> "system files".
> >
> > Pointing users to these bug reports should reduce the nervousness.
> 
> Thanks Benjamin,
> that should help a lot. I'll update the documentation.

Can you update the documentation to recommend autoreconf? Please change:

     sudo apt-get install autogen
    ./autogen.sh

to

    sudo apt-get install autoreconf
    autoreconf

autoreconf will update the configure script and the Makefile.in files.
You can call it with --no-recursive. Otherwise it will update all
autotool files of the libraries in lib-src, too.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer