On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 10:36 +0100, João Pais wrote:
[I couldn't find August Black's mail, so I sent this to the list]
Hi,
I was looking for readanysf~, and found your site. Unfortunately I couldn't built it myself, the make instructions didn't work, and these libraries don't exist for jaunty. Do you have a package with a jaunty binary?
Since it is dependent on gavl and gmerlin-avdecoder, one would also have to maintain packages of those before it makes sense to package [readanysf~] as a deb package. This would be a lot of work. But yeah, I agree that probably many would benefit from it. (whispering to myself: One more reason to learn how to package stuff in debian)
Don't you want to add readanysf to pd-extendend? It would be used by many more people.
From what I know, gavl and gmerlin-avdecoder haven't been ported to
windows, so windows users wouldn't benefit from [readanysf~] being part of Pd-extended. Ideally, every patch created on Pd-extended would work on every Pd-extended installation and including [readanysf~] would break that. But that is only my humble opinion. (However, it's already the case with pdp and probably more).
I've been compiling [readanysf~] a few times recently on fresh ubuntu 9.10 installations and I ran as well into troubles. And there also was a thread recently about readanysf-compilation. Here a few things I found that haven't been mentioned before and that are useful to remember when it comes to [readanysf~] installation:
- Make sure you don't have packages installed, that conflict with your
compiled versions of gmerlin-avdecoder and gavl. To be on the safe side, remove every package with 'gavl' and 'gmerlin' in the name.
- Having certain headers not installed makes even the creation of the
configure scripts for gmerlin-avdecoder and gavl fail. It's probably easier to just first install some libraries with their headers before trying to configure/compile gavl and gmerlin-avdecoder.
- Stick strictly to the instructions from the README of readanysf~.
That is how it worked for me last time (on a ubuntu 9.10 base installation):
- Install some libraries (I decided those, which seemed useful for
[readanysf~], probably not all are required for gmerlin-avdecoder compilatio): $ sudo aptitude install libavcodec-dev libpostproc-dev libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libfaac-dev libfaad-dev libflac-dev libschroedinger-dev libspeex-dev liba52-dev libdca-dev libmpcdec-dev libcdio-dev
- compile and install gavl and gmerlin-avdecoder (in this order)
according to the README shipped with readanysf~.
- compile and install [readanysf~] according to the README
Please report back, if and what kind of troubles you still face, so that we can improve that little how-to.
Roman