[SOLVED] Jack not building properly from slackbuilds.org

tonyleva · 04-08-2022, 07:41 AM

Good day you all.

I’ve been looking for a solution for the problem I’m having but all of my searching hasn’t given proper results, so here I am posting.

So basically I have a very very fresh installation of Slackware 15 and I’m in the process of installing all the packages that are necessary for my work. One of these packages is jack.

So, I go on slackbuilds.org, I download all the necessary files I untar, I compile and everything sento be going smoothly, except no jackd program gets installed in the usr/bin directory (or any of the usr directories).

I tried to su root, to su -l root but nothing changes

The same happened with the fluidr3 sound font package. It didn’t get installed in the usr/share/sounds directory.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you

drumz · 04-08-2022, 07:57 AM

We need to see your build log to be of any help.

For what it's worth, jack compiles fine for me. I additionally use the optional requirement celt (which itself has no dependencies).

Code:

$ cat /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/jack-1.9.19-x86_64-1_SBo
PACKAGE NAME:     jack-1.9.19-x86_64-1_SBo
COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:     544K
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:     2.8M
PACKAGE LOCATION: ./audio/jack/jack-1.9.19-x86_64-1_SBo.txz
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
jack: jack (realtime low-latency sound server)
jack:
jack: JACK is a system for handling real-time, low latency audio and MIDI.
jack: It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device,
jack: as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves.
jack:
jack: Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal apps), or
jack: within the JACK server (ie. as a "plugin"). JACK also has support
jack: for distributing audio processing across a network, both fast &
jack: reliable LANs as well as slower, less reliable WANs.
jack:
FILE LIST:
./
install/
install/doinst.sh
install/slack-desc
usr/
usr/bin/
usr/bin/alsa_in
usr/bin/alsa_out
usr/bin/jack_alias
usr/bin/jack_bufsize
usr/bin/jack_connect
usr/bin/jack_control
usr/bin/jack_cpu
usr/bin/jack_cpu_load
usr/bin/jack_evmon
usr/bin/jack_freewheel
usr/bin/jack_iodelay
usr/bin/jack_latent_client
usr/bin/jack_load
usr/bin/jack_lsp
usr/bin/jack_metro
usr/bin/jack_midi_dump
usr/bin/jack_midi_latency_test
usr/bin/jack_midiseq
usr/bin/jack_midisine
usr/bin/jack_monitor_client
usr/bin/jack_multiple_metro
usr/bin/jack_net_master
usr/bin/jack_net_slave
usr/bin/jack_netsource
usr/bin/jack_property
usr/bin/jack_rec
usr/bin/jack_samplerate
usr/bin/jack_server_control
usr/bin/jack_session_notify
usr/bin/jack_showtime
usr/bin/jack_simdtests
usr/bin/jack_simple_client
usr/bin/jack_simple_session_client
usr/bin/jack_test
usr/bin/jack_thru
usr/bin/jack_transport
usr/bin/jack_unload
usr/bin/jack_wait
usr/bin/jack_zombie
usr/bin/jackd
usr/bin/jackdbus
usr/doc/
usr/doc/jack-1.9.19/
usr/doc/jack-1.9.19/jack.SlackBuild
usr/include/
usr/include/jack/
usr/include/jack/control.h
usr/include/jack/intclient.h
usr/include/jack/jack.h
usr/include/jack/jslist.h
usr/include/jack/metadata.h
usr/include/jack/midiport.h
usr/include/jack/net.h
usr/include/jack/ringbuffer.h
usr/include/jack/session.h
usr/include/jack/statistics.h
usr/include/jack/systemdeps.h
usr/include/jack/thread.h
usr/include/jack/transport.h
usr/include/jack/types.h
usr/include/jack/uuid.h
usr/include/jack/weakjack.h
usr/include/jack/weakmacros.h
usr/lib64/
usr/lib64/jack/
usr/lib64/jack/audioadapter.so
usr/lib64/jack/inprocess.so
usr/lib64/jack/jack_alsa.so
usr/lib64/jack/jack_alsarawmidi.so
usr/lib64/jack/jack_dummy.so
usr/lib64/jack/jack_loopback.so
usr/lib64/jack/jack_net.so
usr/lib64/jack/jack_netone.so
usr/lib64/jack/jack_proxy.so
usr/lib64/jack/netadapter.so
usr/lib64/jack/netmanager.so
usr/lib64/jack/profiler.so
usr/lib64/libjack.so.0.1.0
usr/lib64/libjacknet.so.0.1.0
usr/lib64/libjackserver.so.0.1.0
usr/lib64/pkgconfig/
usr/lib64/pkgconfig/jack.pc
usr/man/
usr/man/man1/
usr/man/man1/alsa_in.1.gz
usr/man/man1/alsa_out.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_bufsize.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_connect.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_disconnect.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_freewheel.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_impulse_grabber.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_iodelay.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_load.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_lsp.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_metro.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_monitor_client.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_netsource.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_property.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_samplerate.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_showtime.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_simple_client.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_transport.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_unload.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jack_wait.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jackd.1.gz
usr/man/man1/jackrec.1.gz
usr/share/
usr/share/dbus-1/
usr/share/dbus-1/services/
usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.jackaudio.service

Also apologies if this seems like a silly question, but it's not clear from your post: You realize that the SlackBuild only builds a Slackware package, and you then have to install it using installpkg, right?

tonyleva · 04-08-2022, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drumz

Also apologies if this seems like a silly question, but it's not clear from your post: You realize that the SlackBuild only builds a Slackware package, and you then have to install it using installpkg, right?

Omg I feel like e complete idiot! I’m sorry. Must be the hot fever I’m running right now.

kgha · 04-08-2022, 08:11 AM

I can confirm what drumz already wrote - building jack with the buildscript from SBo results in a working program that installs properly.

After downloading and extracting the Slackbuilds jack.tar.gz file and downloading the source file jack2-1.9.19.tar.gz I ran the slackbuild script (as root) and the build process went smoothly. I then (after first uninstalling my already present jack package) ran (again as root) installpkg /tmp/jack-1.9.19-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz and after that the jackd file was present (and executable) in the /usr/bin/ folder.

You don't have to build jack yourself, a readymade slackware package is present in AlienBob's repo (although named jack2): https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sb.../x86_64/jack2/

tonyleva · 04-08-2022, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kgha

I can confirm what drumz already wrote - building jack with the buildscript from SBo results in a working program that installs properly.

After downloading and extracting the Slackbuilds jack.tar.gz file and downloading the source file jack2-1.9.19.tar.gz I ran the slackbuild script (as root) and the build process went smoothly. I then (after first uninstalling my already present jack package) ran (again as root) installpkg /tmp/jack-1.9.19-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz and after that the jackd file was present (and executable) in the /usr/bin/ folder.

You don't have to build jack yourself, a readymade slackware package is present in AlienBob's repo (although named jack2): https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sb.../x86_64/jack2/

Yes, you’re both right. I ran the installpkg command and everything worked. I’m just gonna disappear now :|

Kidding aside I hope this could help somebody else

dhalliwe · 04-08-2022, 10:42 AM

Don't feel badly, tonyleva. I often use the saying "learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself".

I keep telling myself that I should do something to automate moving the built package out of /tmp and back into a permanent location - typically where I store the build script and the source. I spent all that time downloading and building - why would I want the package to be "temporary"?

But then I remember that if I try to automate everything, I'll reach a place were automatiion is doing something I don't want - and I can't shut it off. [cough]Microsoft[cough]