problem trying to build audacity-1.3.4-beta

dissociative · 12-02-2007, 11:38 PM

I'm trying to compile audacity-1.3.4 beta with libmad support enabled and audacity uses pkg-config to check the version of libmad installed, but the libmad tgz package from the install media doesnt contains the libmad package configuration file "mad.pc", what should be the right solution? its possible to generate the pkg-config file for libmad?, I think that I ran into a similar issue when trying to compile audacity 1.3.3 beta under FreeBSD 6.2-release

weibullguy · 12-03-2007, 05:42 AM

Change whatever you need to for your system.

Code:

cat > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mad.pc << "EOF"
prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: mad
Description: MPEG audio decoder
Requires:
Version: 0.15.1b
Libs: -L${libdir} -lmad
Cflags: -I${includedir}
EOF

shadowsnipes · 12-03-2007, 01:25 PM

Are you using Slackware 12? I used the Slackbuild at http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...edia/audacity/ and it worked without any problems. I had compiled 1.3.3.

libMAD support works for me.

dissociative · 12-07-2007, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

Are you using Slackware 12? I used the Slackbuild at http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...edia/audacity/ and it worked without any problems. I had compiled 1.3.3.

libMAD support works for me.

I'm under Slackware-current, audacity 1.3.3 beta compiled fine but 1.3.4 did not.

rworkman · 12-07-2007, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by weibullguy

Change whatever you need to for your system.

Code:

cat > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mad.pc << "EOF"
prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: mad
Description: MPEG audio decoder
Requires:
Version: 0.15.1b
Libs: -L${libdir} -lmad
Cflags: -I${includedir}
EOF

Indeed. Someone should poke the audacity devs and nicely ask them not to require distribution-specific files. Until/unless libmad ships a pkgconfig file, that's exactly what the audacity devs are doing. Of course, I guess a poke should also be done to the libmad devs