[ardour-users] report building ardour2 on debian etch

[Antonio]

Hi,

I've built ardour2 on debian etch following the instructions in:

  http://ardour.org/building

It builds without problems but I want to report two things. The first
is a typo in the above page: the sndfile version is >= 1.0.16 not 1.16.
The second thing is that I had to install also libglade2.0-dev
otherwise scons stop building reporting an error. I've installe the
package and re-run scond and the compilation continued without problems.

To install ardour I've run "scons install" from root.

I've not used ardour2 much but I want to report some experience. If
it's the case I can report a proper bug report to mantis.

1) If I start ardour without jack I get the classical error dialog, but
ardour2 segfaults if i click on that dialog.

2) If I start ardour without any .ardour dir in my home ardour segfaults
without any error message:

  $ ardour
  Ardour/GTK 2.0alpha2
     (built using 1.0.2 with libardour 1.0.0 and GCC version 4.1.2
  20060814 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-11))
  Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Paul Davis
  Some portions Copyright (C) Steve Harris, Ari Johnson, Brett Viren,
  Joel Baker

  Ardour comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
  not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
  under certain conditions; see the source for copying conditions.
  ardour: [INFO]: No H/W specific optimizations in use
  Segmentation fault
  $ _

This bug has been reported one time on the mailing list, should I
submit a bug report for it?

3) The last thing involve the theme. Starting ardour without any option
I got an un-themed interface with most text unreadable because with the
same colour of the background. Changing the ARDOUR_UI_RC variable to
point to the patch of the ardour2_ui.rc file in the sources does not
change anything. I get a nice usable interface only if I use the -g
command line options. I should point out that the theme used, isn't my
gtk2 theme, but a theme pretty similar to this:

http://huw.ugbox.net/stuff/ArdourScreenshot.png

The only differeces are:

* the track name of the unselected track is unreadable (black as the
background) 

* the tabs on the right are horizontal and with clear background as my
gtk2 theme. However the selected tab's tile is unreadable (the text is
white as the backgroud).

* at the "normal" track height a small portion of the button are cut
(as the track should a bit larger).

Are these known problems or am I experiencing them only on my side?

Tell me I you need further information or want me to submet some bugs.

Cheers,

  ~ Antonio