[Ardour-Dev] Ardour3 rev.13135 undefined symbol

[John Rigg]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:27:30PM +0100, John Rigg wrote:
> > Beware. Installing glib in /usr/local can be a very bad idea. Chances
> > are that it'll break your system unless you also recompile many other g*
> > libraries.
> 
> This is in addition to the distro versions in /usr. a3 is the only thing
> compiled against these new libs.
> 
> > You should really use a dedicated path and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to that
> > in the ./ardev script.
> 
> There's no ./ardev script but it doesn't appear to be a problem now that
> I've added /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf/libc.conf and run ldconfig
> again. It starts and runs fine now on my test system.

I spoke too soon. Both versions of glib are visible to other apps
that use it. Ardour 2 started acting very strangely, playing at half
speed and then refusing to play at all. Looks like I need to use a dedicated
path as you suggested.

John