Has anyone built 2.8.3 on a KDE system?

[Mark Greenwood-2]

Hi All,

I've mentioned this on the forum but tracking down the problem is proving difficult.

I've got a problem building Ardour 2.8.3 and I think it might be to do with building it on a KDE4-based system. It doesn't build or install the internal clearlooks module, so the GUI looks very strange indeed. Also the performance compared to 2.8 (which builds fine) is very poor, usually losing connection to JACK after a few seconds of playback or immediately upon starting. The GUI redraw performance is abysmal and so I think this is creating the JACK problem.

I've now tried this on 2 different KDE4 systems - Mandriva 2009.1 and Kubuntu 9.10 and I get exactly the same behaviour on both (except that 2.8 doesn't build at all on the Kubuntu box but that's a different problem).

Does anybody out there run 2.8.3 on a 'pure' KDE4-based system? Have you built it successfully?

BTW I have been able to install 2.8.2 from repositories on both these systems but the packages are built with SYSLIBS turned on and LV2 turned off which means I get no support and I can't run the plugins I need (sigh). I'd therefore very much like to get 2.8.3 to build. If anyone can offer any help (apart from 'Use Fedora' ;) ) it will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark
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[John Emmas]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Greenwood"
Subject: [Ardour-Users] Has anyone built 2.8.3 on a KDE system?
>
> I've got a problem building Ardour 2.8.3 and I think it might be to do
> with building it on a KDE4-based system. It doesn't build or install the
> internal clearlooks module
>
A month or two ago I reported something very similar with 2.8.2.  Although
(in my case) libclearlooks is being built, 'scons install' wasn't installing
it over the older version.  I can't remember now whether I needed to copy
libclearlooks.so manually or whether simply deleting
/usr/local/lib/ardour2/engines/libclearlooks.so then allows 'scons install'
to work.

John

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[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman@...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've mentioned this on the forum but tracking down the problem is proving difficult.
>
> I've got a problem building Ardour 2.8.3 and I think it might be to do with building it on a KDE4-based system. It doesn't build or install the internal clearlooks module, so the GUI looks very strange indeed. Also the performance compared to 2.8 (which builds fine) is very poor, usually losing connection to JACK after a few seconds of playback or immediately upon starting. The GUI redraw performance is abysmal and so I think this is creating the JACK problem.

its a bug in the 2.8.3 tarball. i am very sorry about this. i will put
a new one in place today, and an announcement about it on ardour.org
...
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[Lamar Owen]

On Friday 30 October 2009 06:41:22 am Mark Greenwood wrote:
> I've now tried this on 2 different KDE4 systems - Mandriva 2009.1 and
>  Kubuntu 9.10 and I get exactly the same behaviour on both (except that 2.8
>  doesn't build at all on the Kubuntu box but that's a different problem).

> Does anybody out there run 2.8.3 on a 'pure' KDE4-based system? Have you
>  built it successfully?

My Fedora 11 box probably isn't considered a 'pure' KDE 4 box, since F11 pulls
in quite a bit of GNOME even in a KDE4 install.  And in my case I'm tracking
the kde-redhat development packages (which produce all sorts of fun things),
so this isn't 'typical', but, having said all that, here's what I did.

I have successfully built and installed Ardour 2.8.3 in a working mode with
good graphics and 'normal' performance, but I did it in a different way than
most.  I took the Fedora 12 Ardour 2.8.2 source RPM and all its dependencies
that weren't available in F11 (libsndfile of the required version, for
instance), and rebuilt from source RPM for version 2.8.2 to make sure the
buildsystem was working properly.  I then modified the 2.8.2 source RPM's spec
file for 2.8.3, and 'rpmbuild -ba ardour.spec' and picked up a shiny new Ardour
2.8.3 RPM a little while later.  Note that there are a number of dependencies
that have to be rebuilt from the F12 (rawhide at the moment) repository.

Can't help you with the Kubuntu rebuild, though, as I never really delved into
the Debian way of packaging and rebuilding packages.  But I maintained the
PostgreSQL.org RPM set between 1999 and 2004, and still remember the proper
way of building things on an RPM-based system.  And the current Ardour package
maintainer for Fedora is doing a good job of tracking things, it looks like,
so F12 might get 2.8.3 (I haven't checked the repo, though).
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Lamar Owen
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Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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Rosman, NC  28772
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