Re: [Zinf-devel] volunteer

[David H. <da...@th...>]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:16:31 -0000, Kristian Kvilekval <kr...@cs...>  
wrote:

> Hi Henry,
>
>    This project has slowed down quite a bit.  However, there
> is a nice new interface and metadata system available to those
> that are willing to run the experimental version of the code.
> If you look through the developers archive, you may see
> that David Hough and I have been publishing source code
> with arch(tla).    The experimental version has a much nicer
> interface. You might want to describe the few easy steps to
> get it working.  There is stuff in the mailing list about it.
>

...

Hi,

I agree, a HOWTO detailing how to get the experimental version of Zinf  
running on a computer would be great.

Probably wouldn't need to be much more then the details of all the  
necessary dependecies, how to get current version of from CVS or arch, and  
a few build instructions.

Here's a few notes that may help if you do want to do this, they're  
probably all mentioned somewhere in the mailing list archive as well.
- CVS doesn't include a pre-generated configure script, you need to  
execute autogen.sh to create it

- autogen.sh requires most (if not all, i can't remember) of the normally  
optional dependices to be installed

- to build the new stuff, you need to specifiy --enable-experimental as an  
option to configure

- To use the new stuff, you need to change the MusicBrowserUI option in  
~/.zinf/preferences. Instead of musicbrowser.ui, it should be  
musicbrowsermm.ui

- To run zinf from the build dir, so you don't need to do 'make install',  
execute ./base/zinf

- To debug, 'gdb ./base/zinf' doesn't work. Instead execute 'libtool  
--mode=execute gdb ./base/zinf'

If you have any problems, don't hesitate to ask. The answer may take a  
while though, as I at least have almost zero spare time at the moment  
(lots of university work to do).

Cheers,
David
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