[Ardour-Users] Stuck at 2.8.0 ??? (for now)

[Kevin Cosgrove]

I think if I had a newer distribution than Mandriva 2007.0 that
I wouldn't be having these problems.  Not being able to upgrade
ardour would be yet one more reason to force me to upgrade.
Maybe someone can tell me if I have another way out.

I saw an email that says that 2.8.0 has a bug which can
cause file losses related to cleaning up unused files,
and that the trouble is fixed in later versions.  I built
2.8.0 just fine.  But, 2.8.1 and 2.8.2 compile OK but scons
won't complete the install step because of bug ID 0002718,
http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=2718 like so

   mo_builder(["gtk2_ardour/nn_NO.mo"], ["gtk2_ardour/nn_NO.po"])
   msgfmt: gtk2_ardour/nn_NO.po: some header fields still have the initial default value
   msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
   scons: *** [gtk2_ardour/nn_NO.mo] Error 1

I see this is fixed in 2.0-ongoing, and I grabbed today's
SVN version 5756.  I verified that I have all of the tools
and libraries of the versions required of Ardour 2.0 here
http://www.ardour.org/building Running scons told me that I
needed to grab a newer libsndfile.  I have 1.0.17 installed.  It
looks like 2.0-ongoing (and 2.8.3?) needs 1.0.18 or better.

So, I grabbed 1.0.18 (also tried 1.0.19 and 1.0.20) and then I
ran into this problem:

   Making all in GSM610
   make[3]: Entering directory `/home/local/src/INCOMING/BUILD/libsndfile-1.0.18/src/GSM610'
   /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../src     -O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 -mtune=pentiumpro -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wpointer-arith -funsigned-char -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wnested-externs -Wshadow -Wbad-function-cast -Wwrite-strings  -pipe  -MT add.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/add.Tpo -c -o add.lo add.c
   /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../src     -O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 -mtune=pentiumpro -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wpointer-arith -funsigned-char -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wnested-externs -Wshadow -Wbad-function-cast -Wwrite-strings  -pipe  -MT decode.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/decode.Tpo -c -o decode.lo decode.c
   ../../libtool: line 780: X--tag=CC: command not found
   ../../libtool: line 780: X--tag=CC: command not found

Which seems related to
http://www.mail-archive.com/libtool@gnu.org/msg10239.html which
is a pretty good discussion.

Then I tried something probably stupid, but maybe it would work.  I 
changed the sndfile requirement in SConstruct from 1.0.18 to 1.0.17 
which caused the scons build to fail after completing more steps, at 
this point

   g++ -o libs/ardour/session_export.os -c -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fstrength-reduce -pipe -DARCH_X86 -mmmx -m3dnow -march=i686 -msse -mfpmath=sse -DUSE_XMMINTRIN -DBUILD_SSE_OPTIMIZATIONS -Wall -DHAVE_LIBLO -Ilibs -DENABLE_NLS -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -Ilibs -pthread -DUSE_RUBBERBAND -Woverloaded-virtual -DPACKAGE=\"libardour2\" -DLIBSIGC_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DDATA_DIR=\"/usr/share\" -DMODULE_DIR=\"/usr/lib\" -DVAMP_DIR=\"/usr/lib/ardour2/vamp\" -DCONFIG_DIR=\"/etc\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DHAVE_JACK_CLIENT_OPEN -DHAVE_JACK_RECOMPUTE_LATENCIES -DHAVE_JACK_VIDEO_SUPPORT -DHAVE_JACK_PORT_ENSURE_MONITOR -DHAVE_WORDEXP -DHAVE_SYS_VFS_H -fPIC -Ilibs/pbd -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -Ilibs/surfaces/control_protocol -Ilibs/midi++2 -Ilibs/vamp-sdk -Ilibs/sigc++2 -Ilibs/glibmm2 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -Ilibs/ardour -Ilibs/rubberband -I/usr/include/libxml2 libs/ardour/session_export.cc
   libs/ardour/session_export.cc: In member function ?int ARDOUR::AudioExportSpecification::prepare(nframes_t, nframes_t)?:
   libs/ardour/session_export.cc:173: error: ?SF_FORMAT_OGG? was not declared in this scope
   scons: *** [libs/ardour/session_export.os] Error 1
   scons: building terminated because of errors.


At this point I think I have two choices:

 - Continue with 2.8.0 and avoid cleaning up my old files.
 - Upgrade to a modern distribution which has or can build the 
   components required to build newer versions of ardour.

Any comments?

If you made it this far, thanks for reading!  Cheerio....

--
Kevin