[ardour-dev] Liblo causes hang on startup

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 22:21 +0000, John Rigg wrote:
> I finally got Ardour2 beta11.1 to compile on Debian Etch :-)
> 
> However, I find if it's compiled with liblo support, as per
> the default SConstruct setting, it hangs for 2 to 3 minutes
> before anything happens at startup. Recompiling without liblo
> fixed it. I'm guessing that it was looking for non-existent
> connections. Is there any reason why liblo support can't be set
> to 0 in SConstruct by default?

this is generally indicative of a misconfigured /etc/hosts or
equivalent. i wish i could tell you what the mistake is, but i don't
recall. i do know that steve harris (liblo's primary author) ran into
several people having this issue and pointed them at the right fix.
google might help ... or try the LAD list.

> JAMin did exactly the same thing until I recompiled it
> without liblo, so the problem isn't exclusive to Ardour2.
> 
> Apart from that minor complaint, it looks pretty darn good!
> If my tests over the next week or so go well I hope to
> start using it on my production system.