[Ardour-Dev] configuration woes on OpenBSD

[Jan Stary]

On Jan 13 06:57:43, Hans Baier wrote:
> I just wanted to try building Ardour on OpenBSD,
> but getting the dependencies together seems so hard that I
> am just about to stop wanting to try.
> (especially rdf/redland/raptor).

I didn't really experience any serious problems putting the
prerequisities together: of all the software required by
http://ardour.org/building, gcc is in base, and the following
are in ports (and offer no difficulty installing): sconcs, python,
gettext, pkg-config, libtool, jack, xml2, xslt, libart, samplerate,
glib2, gtk, libgnomecanvas, boost, fftw.

That leaves raptor, liblrdf, liblo, and aubio:

installing raptor is a './configure ; make ; make install'

liblrdf offers a minor difficulty, because examples/showdefaults.c
includes ladspa.h, which is not present on OpenBSD. Just comment out
the 'examples' target in liblrdf's top-level Makefile.

installing liblo is a './configure ; make ; make install'

aubio needs 'env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include ./configure'
(otherwise it wrongly compains about fftw3.h not existing);
then 'make ; make install' as usual.

That covers all the requirements.
(What is 'redland'?)

And what stops me now is ardour's scons script saying

	Checking for C header file fftw3.h... no

(after just saying

	Checking for fftw3f...yes
	Checking for fftw3...yes

a few lines before, as explained in my original post).

How exactly does scons check for fftw being present,
and why does it succeed first and fail second?

	Jan