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kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Audacity 1.2.2

audacity needed to be recompiled with new wxgtk (the one with gtk 2.4 support), and I was getting an error.
This is the PKGBUILD I used to get it working. The solution I gave (making the missing directory) is not elegant, but it worked for me.

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.8 2004/05/26 23:00:55 dorphell Exp $
# Contributor: Tom Newsom <Jeepster@gmx.co.uk>
# Maintainer: dorphell <dorphell@archlinux.org>

pkgname=audacity
pkgver=1.2.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms"
depends=('wxgtk' 'libvorbis' 'libmad' 'libid3tag')
makedepends=('zip')
source=(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/latest/audacity-src.php/audacity-src-$pkgver.tar.gz)
url="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/"
md5sums=('68d60659ad936792f6d7d746a40a7179')


build() {
   cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-src-$pkgver
   ./configure --prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr --with-portaudio=v18
   mkdir -p src/obj/effects/ladspa
   make || return 1
   make install
}

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sarah31

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Re: Audacity 1.2.2

well instead of making the directory did you try using

make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install

in place of the standard prefix= line?

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kpiche

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Re: Audacity 1.2.2

   ./configure --prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr --with-portaudio=v18

Also your prefix should be just --prefix=/usr.  It may compile the prefix path into the binary and it probably won't exists on most users' systems.

kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

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Re: Audacity 1.2.2

well instead of making the directory did you try using

make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install

in place of the standard prefix= line?

I did not try that (didn't know that it could be made), but I don't get why it should make it work. The problem I was having was that make complained about a directory missing in the sources, so I just made it. Don't know if it had something to do with the prefix.

   

Also your prefix should be just --prefix=/usr. It may compile the prefix path into the binary and it probably won't exists on most users' systems.

Don't know about that, I just copied the PKGBUILD from the  version in abs, so I think it's fine.

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kpiche

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Re: Audacity 1.2.2

Well when you configure a source tree the --prefix not only often determines the install point but also let's the program know where it will be installed in case it needs to setup some paths.  So should the source tree think it will be installed in  $startdir/pkg/usr or /usr?

So maybe audacity cannot find the directory because the build hardcoded $startdir/pkg/usr into the dir's path.  The easiest way to check is to do use the strings command on the binary.  The audacity-1.2.1-1 binary gives:

# strings audacity |grep usr
/home/dorphell/Arch.CVS/extra/multimedia/audacity/pkg/usr
/home/dorphell/Arch.CVS/extra/multimedia/audacity/pkg/usr/share/doc/audacity/audacity-1.2-help.htb
/usr/lib
/usr/local/lib/ladspa
/usr/lib/ladspa
/home/dorphell/Arch.CVS/extra/multimedia/audacity/pkg/usr/ladspa
#

So the app has /home/dorphell... built into it.  This path is hardcoded in src/configunix.h and used in several places.  Basically the abs PKGBUILD has a bug.

kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

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Re: Audacity 1.2.2

Good point... I don't know if I should file a bug report, as audacity has always worked fine for me. don't know if this bug is important enough.

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kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

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Re: Audacity 1.2.2

I've just rebuilt it with this build code:

build() {
   cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-src-$pkgver
   ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-portaudio=v18
   mkdir -p src/obj/effects/ladspa
   make || return 1
   make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
}

and the strings test gives me the same result (/var/abs/extra/multimedia/audacity)

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kpiche

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Re: Audacity 1.2.2

Strange...I used:

build() {
   cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-src-$pkgver
   ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-portaudio=v18
   make || return 1
   make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}

$ strings pkg/usr/bin/audacity |grep usr
/usr
/usr/share/doc/audacity/audacity-1.2-help.htb
/usr/lib
/usr/ladspa
/usr/local/lib/ladspa
/usr/lib/ladspa
$

The Makefile supports DESTDIR, use that instead.

Xentac

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Re: Audacity 1.2.2

A switch from prefix to DESTDIR would warrant a bug report.

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