[Ardour-Users] [Alsa-User] Compilation issue.

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 13:40 +0100, J M Needham wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm new on this list, so forgive any faux pas through ignorance. I have
> already looked on the archives for the answer to this and on google and
> have only found one thing.
> 
> When I compile Ardour 2.4.1 on Ubuntu hardy heron, I get to the coremidui
> section:
> 
> 
> Checking for C header file
> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreMIDI.framework/Headers/CoreMIDI.h…
> (cached) no
> Checking for C header file
> /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AudioUnit.h…
> (cached) no
> Checking for C header file
> /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Headers/ExtendedAudioFile.h…
> (cached) no
> 
> And then scons tells me I have an error and it cannot build the makefile.

you've got "incorrect" versions of the auto* tools (known by smart
people everywhere as "autocrap"). these tools make no effort at back- or
forward compatibility, so if you don't have the correct versions, it
will fail. we do not use these tools anymore, but alas, two of the
libraries that are part of the build do, in a way that we cannot
trivially replace.

i can't even tell you precisely what range of versions will work, but i
can tell you that i have:

	automake 1.10
	libtool 1.5.24
	autoconf 2.61

> One post said to ignore teh messages as they apply to os x, but my box
> stops immediately after those.

There are not errors. They are correctly noting that your box does not
appear to be an OS X system. You need not worry about them.