[ardour-dev] export problems - testers requested

[Paul Davis]

Problems with export are one of just two remaining items preventing
the release of ardour 0.99. Reports to the mailing list/mantis/#ardour
seem inconclusive at present. One user who was having crashes every
time he tried to downsample from 48kHz -> 44.1kHz reports that
updating his system fixed the problem. Other reports are confusing, or
anecdotal. 

I would really appreciate it if as many as people as possible could
try exports on sessions longer than, say, 5 minutes, with and without
down and upsampling. These tests should be run with JACK in realtime
and non-realtime mode, and you should note which version of JACK you
are using. Also report which version of glibc you have, like this:

    % ls /lib/libc.so.*

then execute the most obvious one to get something like:

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GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.2, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.2 20031218 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-5).
Compiled on a Linux 2.4.20 system on 2004-01-06.
Available extensions:
        GNU libio by Per Bothner
        crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
        linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy
        The C stubs add-on version 2.1.2.
        BIND-8.2.3-T5B
        NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk
        Glibc-2.0 compatibility add-on by Cristian Gafton
        libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc
Thread-local storage support included.
Report bugs using the `glibcbug' script to <bugs at gnu.org>.
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Mail reports to ardour-dev, and I'll try to assess what is really
going on.

thanks muchly,

--p