Building Audacity 2.1.2 on Debian unstable

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I’m unsuccessfully trying to build version 2.1.2 of Audacity on Debian unstable.

$ uname -a
Linux witiko 4.3.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.5-1 (2016-02-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux

This is how I proceed:

# Get the Audacity repository.
$ git clone https://github.com/audacity/audacity
$ cd audacity
$ git checkout Audacity-2.1.2

# Install the dependencies
$ sudo apt install cmake automake autoconf

# Get the wxWidgets repository and build the library.
$ git clone https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets
$ cd wxWidgets
$ git checkout v3.0.2
$ ./configure && make
$ cd ..

# Build Audacity.
$ ./configure WX_CONFIG="$PWD"/wxWidgets/wx-config 2>&1 | tee ~/configure-53b8fd5.log
$ make 2>&1 | tee ~/make-53b8fd5.log

However, the compilation fails at linkage:

$ tail -n12 make-53b8fd5.log 
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++ -Wno-unused-local-typedefs -I../lib-src/portmixer/include  -DwxDEBUG_LEVEL=0  -Wall -I../include -I../lib-src/FileDialog                   -rdynamic  -o audacity audacity-BlockFile.o audacity-DirManager.o audacity-Dither.o audacity-FileFormats.o audacity-Internat.o audacity-Prefs.o audacity-SampleFormat.o audacity-Sequence.o blockfile/audacity-LegacyAliasBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-LegacyBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-ODDecodeBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-ODPCMAliasBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-PCMAliasBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-SilentBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-SimpleBlockFile.o xml/audacity-XMLTagHandler.o audacity-AboutDialog.o audacity-AColor.o audacity-AudacityApp.o audacity-AudacityLogger.o audacity-AudioIO.o audacity-AutoRecovery.o audacity-BatchCommandDialog.o audacity-BatchCommands.o audacity-BatchProcessDialog.o audacity-Benchmark.o audacity-Dependencies.o audacity-DeviceChange.o audacity-DeviceManager.o audacity-Diags.o audacity-Envelope.o audacity-FFmpeg.o audacity-FFT.o audacity-FileIO.o audacity-FileNames.o audacity-FreqWindow.o audacity-HelpText.o audacity-HistoryWindow.o audacity-ImageManipulation.o audacity-InterpolateAudio.o audacity-LabelDialog.o audacity-LabelTrack.o audacity-LangChoice.o audacity-Languages.o audacity-Legacy.o audacity-Lyrics.o audacity-LyricsWindow.o audacity-Matrix.o audacity-Menus.o audacity-Mix.o audacity-MixerBoard.o audacity-ModuleManager.o audacity-PitchName.o audacity-PlatformCompatibility.o audacity-PluginManager.o audacity-Printing.o audacity-Profiler.o audacity-Project.o audacity-RealFFTf.o audacity-RealFFTf48x.o audacity-Resample.o audacity-RingBuffer.o audacity-Screenshot.o audacity-SelectedRegion.o audacity-Shuttle.o audacity-ShuttleGui.o audacity-ShuttlePrefs.o audacity-Snap.o audacity-SoundActivatedRecord.o audacity-Spectrum.o audacity-SplashDialog.o audacity-SseMathFuncs.o audacity-Tags.o audacity-Theme.o audacity-TimeDialog.o audacity-TimerRecordDialog.o audacity-TimeTrack.o audacity-Track.o audacity-TrackArtist.o audacity-TrackPanel.o audacity-TrackPanelAx.o audacity-UndoManager.o audacity-ViewInfo.o audacity-VoiceKey.o audacity-WaveClip.o audacity-WaveTrack.o audacity-WrappedType.o commands/audacity-AppCommandEvent.o commands/audacity-BatchEvalCommand.o commands/audacity-Command.o commands/audacity-CommandBuilder.o commands/audacity-CommandDirectory.o commands/audacity-CommandHandler.o commands/audacity-CommandManager.o commands/audacity-CommandSignature.o commands/audacity-CommandType.o commands/audacity-CompareAudioCommand.o commands/audacity-ExecMenuCommand.o commands/audacity-GetAllMenuCommands.o commands/audacity-GetProjectInfoCommand.o commands/audacity-GetTrackInfoCommand.o commands/audacity-HelpCommand.o commands/audacity-ImportExportCommands.o commands/audacity-Keyboard.o commands/audacity-MessageCommand.o commands/audacity-OpenSaveCommands.o commands/audacity-PreferenceCommands.o commands/audacity-ResponseQueue.o commands/audacity-ScreenshotCommand.o commands/audacity-ScriptCommandRelay.o commands/audacity-SelectCommand.o commands/audacity-SetProjectInfoCommand.o commands/audacity-SetTrackInfoCommand.o effects/audacity-Amplify.o effects/audacity-AutoDuck.o effects/audacity-BassTreble.o effects/audacity-Biquad.o effects/audacity-ChangePitch.o effects/audacity-ChangeSpeed.o effects/audacity-ChangeTempo.o effects/audacity-ClickRemoval.o effects/audacity-Compressor.o effects/audacity-Contrast.o effects/audacity-DtmfGen.o effects/audacity-Echo.o effects/audacity-Effect.o effects/audacity-EffectManager.o effects/audacity-EffectRack.o effects/audacity-Equalization.o effects/audacity-Equalization48x.o effects/audacity-Fade.o effects/audacity-FindClipping.o effects/audacity-Generator.o effects/audacity-Invert.o effects/audacity-Leveller.o effects/audacity-LoadEffects.o effects/audacity-Noise.o effects/audacity-NoiseReduction.o effects/audacity-NoiseRemoval.o effects/audacity-Normalize.o effects/audacity-Paulstretch.o effects/audacity-Phaser.o effects/audacity-Repair.o effects/audacity-Repeat.o effects/audacity-Reverb.o effects/audacity-Reverse.o effects/audacity-SBSMSEffect.o effects/audacity-ScienFilter.o effects/audacity-Silence.o effects/audacity-SimpleMono.o effects/audacity-SoundTouchEffect.o effects/audacity-StereoToMono.o effects/audacity-TimeScale.o effects/audacity-TimeWarper.o effects/audacity-ToneGen.o effects/audacity-TruncSilence.o effects/audacity-TwoPassSimpleMono.o effects/audacity-Wahwah.o export/audacity-Export.o export/audacity-ExportCL.o export/audacity-ExportFLAC.o export/audacity-ExportMP2.o export/audacity-ExportMP3.o export/audacity-ExportMultiple.o export/audacity-ExportOGG.o export/audacity-ExportPCM.o import/audacity-Import.o import/audacity-ImportFLAC.o import/audacity-ImportLOF.o import/audacity-ImportMP3.o import/audacity-ImportOGG.o import/audacity-ImportPCM.o import/audacity-ImportRaw.o import/audacity-RawAudioGuess.o import/audacity-FormatClassifier.o import/audacity-MultiFormatReader.o import/audacity-SpecPowerMeter.o ondemand/audacity-ODComputeSummaryTask.o ondemand/audacity-ODDecodeFFmpegTask.o ondemand/audacity-ODDecodeTask.o ondemand/audacity-ODManager.o ondemand/audacity-ODTask.o ondemand/audacity-ODTaskThread.o ondemand/audacity-ODWaveTrackTaskQueue.o prefs/audacity-BatchPrefs.o prefs/audacity-DevicePrefs.o prefs/audacity-DirectoriesPrefs.o prefs/audacity-EffectsPrefs.o prefs/audacity-ExtImportPrefs.o prefs/audacity-GUIPrefs.o prefs/audacity-ImportExportPrefs.o prefs/audacity-KeyConfigPrefs.o prefs/audacity-LibraryPrefs.o prefs/audacity-MidiIOPrefs.o prefs/audacity-ModulePrefs.o prefs/audacity-MousePrefs.o prefs/audacity-PlaybackPrefs.o prefs/audacity-PrefsDialog.o prefs/audacity-ProjectsPrefs.o prefs/audacity-QualityPrefs.o prefs/audacity-RecordingPrefs.o prefs/audacity-SpectrogramSettings.o prefs/audacity-SpectrumPrefs.o prefs/audacity-ThemePrefs.o prefs/audacity-TracksPrefs.o prefs/audacity-WarningsPrefs.o prefs/audacity-WaveformPrefs.o prefs/audacity-WaveformSettings.o toolbars/audacity-ControlToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-DeviceToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-EditToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-MeterToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-MixerToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-SelectionBar.o toolbars/audacity-SpectralSelectionBar.o toolbars/audacity-ToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-ToolDock.o toolbars/audacity-ToolManager.o toolbars/audacity-ToolsToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-TranscriptionToolBar.o widgets/audacity-AButton.o widgets/audacity-ASlider.o widgets/audacity-AttachableScrollBar.o widgets/audacity-ErrorDialog.o widgets/audacity-ExpandingToolBar.o widgets/audacity-FileHistory.o widgets/audacity-Grabber.o widgets/audacity-Grid.o widgets/audacity-HelpSystem.o widgets/audacity-HtmlWindow.o widgets/audacity-ImageRoll.o widgets/audacity-KeyView.o widgets/audacity-LinkingHtmlWindow.o widgets/audacity-Meter.o widgets/audacity-MultiDialog.o widgets/audacity-NumericTextCtrl.o widgets/audacity-numformatter.o widgets/audacity-ProgressDialog.o widgets/audacity-Ruler.o widgets/audacity-valnum.o widgets/audacity-Warning.o xml/audacity-XMLFileReader.o xml/audacity-XMLWriter.o  export/audacity-ExportFFmpeg.o export/audacity-ExportFFmpegDialogs.o import/audacity-ImportFFmpeg.o  effects/ladspa/audacity-LadspaEffect.o ondemand/audacity-ODDecodeFlacTask.o effects/nyquist/audacity-LoadNyquist.o effects/nyquist/audacity-Nyquist.o effects/lv2/audacity-LoadLV2.o effects/lv2/audacity-LV2Effect.o audacity-NoteTrack.o import/audacity-ImportMIDI.o  effects/vamp/audacity-LoadVamp.o effects/vamp/audacity-VampEffect.o effects/VST/audacity-VSTEffect.o effects/VST/audacity-VSTControlGTK.o -lexpat ../lib-src/FileDialog/libFileDialog.la -lportaudio -lasound -lm -lpthread ../lib-src/portmixer/src/libportmixer.la -lsndfile -lsoxr ../lib-src/lib-widget-extra/libwidgetextra.la -L/home/witiko/programs/audacity/wxWidgets/lib -pthread   -Wl,-rpath,/home/witiko/programs/audacity/wxWidgets/lib -lwx_gtk2u_xrc-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_html-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_qa-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_core-3.0 -lwx_baseu_xml-3.0 -lwx_baseu_net-3.0 -lwx_baseu-3.0        -lFLAC++ -lFLAC -lid3tag -lz -lmad ../lib-src/libnyquist/libnyquist.a -lSoundTouch -ltwolame -lvorbisenc -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -logg ../lib-src/lv2/liblv2.a -lportSMF  -lsbsms -lvamp-hostsdk -ldl  -ldl   -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lasound -ljack -lpthread -lrt -ludev
libtool: link: g++ -Wno-unused-local-typedefs -I../lib-src/portmixer/include -DwxDEBUG_LEVEL=0 -Wall -I../include -I../lib-src/FileDialog -rdynamic -o audacity audacity-BlockFile.o audacity-DirManager.o audacity-Dither.o audacity-FileFormats.o audacity-Internat.o audacity-Prefs.o audacity-SampleFormat.o audacity-Sequence.o blockfile/audacity-LegacyAliasBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-LegacyBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-ODDecodeBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-ODPCMAliasBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-PCMAliasBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-SilentBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-SimpleBlockFile.o xml/audacity-XMLTagHandler.o audacity-AboutDialog.o audacity-AColor.o audacity-AudacityApp.o audacity-AudacityLogger.o audacity-AudioIO.o audacity-AutoRecovery.o audacity-BatchCommandDialog.o audacity-BatchCommands.o audacity-BatchProcessDialog.o audacity-Benchmark.o audacity-Dependencies.o audacity-DeviceChange.o audacity-DeviceManager.o audacity-Diags.o audacity-Envelope.o audacity-FFmpeg.o audacity-FFT.o audacity-FileIO.o audacity-FileNames.o audacity-FreqWindow.o audacity-HelpText.o audacity-HistoryWindow.o audacity-ImageManipulation.o audacity-InterpolateAudio.o audacity-LabelDialog.o audacity-LabelTrack.o audacity-LangChoice.o audacity-Languages.o audacity-Legacy.o audacity-Lyrics.o audacity-LyricsWindow.o audacity-Matrix.o audacity-Menus.o audacity-Mix.o audacity-MixerBoard.o audacity-ModuleManager.o audacity-PitchName.o audacity-PlatformCompatibility.o audacity-PluginManager.o audacity-Printing.o audacity-Profiler.o audacity-Project.o audacity-RealFFTf.o audacity-RealFFTf48x.o audacity-Resample.o audacity-RingBuffer.o audacity-Screenshot.o audacity-SelectedRegion.o audacity-Shuttle.o audacity-ShuttleGui.o audacity-ShuttlePrefs.o audacity-Snap.o audacity-SoundActivatedRecord.o audacity-Spectrum.o audacity-SplashDialog.o audacity-SseMathFuncs.o audacity-Tags.o audacity-Theme.o audacity-TimeDialog.o audacity-TimerRecordDialog.o audacity-TimeTrack.o audacity-Track.o audacity-TrackArtist.o audacity-TrackPanel.o audacity-TrackPanelAx.o audacity-UndoManager.o audacity-ViewInfo.o audacity-VoiceKey.o audacity-WaveClip.o audacity-WaveTrack.o audacity-WrappedType.o commands/audacity-AppCommandEvent.o commands/audacity-BatchEvalCommand.o commands/audacity-Command.o commands/audacity-CommandBuilder.o commands/audacity-CommandDirectory.o commands/audacity-CommandHandler.o commands/audacity-CommandManager.o commands/audacity-CommandSignature.o commands/audacity-CommandType.o commands/audacity-CompareAudioCommand.o commands/audacity-ExecMenuCommand.o commands/audacity-GetAllMenuCommands.o commands/audacity-GetProjectInfoCommand.o commands/audacity-GetTrackInfoCommand.o commands/audacity-HelpCommand.o commands/audacity-ImportExportCommands.o commands/audacity-Keyboard.o commands/audacity-MessageCommand.o commands/audacity-OpenSaveCommands.o commands/audacity-PreferenceCommands.o commands/audacity-ResponseQueue.o commands/audacity-ScreenshotCommand.o commands/audacity-ScriptCommandRelay.o commands/audacity-SelectCommand.o commands/audacity-SetProjectInfoCommand.o commands/audacity-SetTrackInfoCommand.o effects/audacity-Amplify.o effects/audacity-AutoDuck.o effects/audacity-BassTreble.o effects/audacity-Biquad.o effects/audacity-ChangePitch.o effects/audacity-ChangeSpeed.o effects/audacity-ChangeTempo.o effects/audacity-ClickRemoval.o effects/audacity-Compressor.o effects/audacity-Contrast.o effects/audacity-DtmfGen.o effects/audacity-Echo.o effects/audacity-Effect.o effects/audacity-EffectManager.o effects/audacity-EffectRack.o effects/audacity-Equalization.o effects/audacity-Equalization48x.o effects/audacity-Fade.o effects/audacity-FindClipping.o effects/audacity-Generator.o effects/audacity-Invert.o effects/audacity-Leveller.o effects/audacity-LoadEffects.o effects/audacity-Noise.o effects/audacity-NoiseReduction.o effects/audacity-NoiseRemoval.o effects/audacity-Normalize.o effects/audacity-Paulstretch.o effects/audacity-Phaser.o effects/audacity-Repair.o effects/audacity-Repeat.o effects/audacity-Reverb.o effects/audacity-Reverse.o effects/audacity-SBSMSEffect.o effects/audacity-ScienFilter.o effects/audacity-Silence.o effects/audacity-SimpleMono.o effects/audacity-SoundTouchEffect.o effects/audacity-StereoToMono.o effects/audacity-TimeScale.o effects/audacity-TimeWarper.o effects/audacity-ToneGen.o effects/audacity-TruncSilence.o effects/audacity-TwoPassSimpleMono.o effects/audacity-Wahwah.o export/audacity-Export.o export/audacity-ExportCL.o export/audacity-ExportFLAC.o export/audacity-ExportMP2.o export/audacity-ExportMP3.o export/audacity-ExportMultiple.o export/audacity-ExportOGG.o export/audacity-ExportPCM.o import/audacity-Import.o import/audacity-ImportFLAC.o import/audacity-ImportLOF.o import/audacity-ImportMP3.o import/audacity-ImportOGG.o import/audacity-ImportPCM.o import/audacity-ImportRaw.o import/audacity-RawAudioGuess.o import/audacity-FormatClassifier.o import/audacity-MultiFormatReader.o import/audacity-SpecPowerMeter.o ondemand/audacity-ODComputeSummaryTask.o ondemand/audacity-ODDecodeFFmpegTask.o ondemand/audacity-ODDecodeTask.o ondemand/audacity-ODManager.o ondemand/audacity-ODTask.o ondemand/audacity-ODTaskThread.o ondemand/audacity-ODWaveTrackTaskQueue.o prefs/audacity-BatchPrefs.o prefs/audacity-DevicePrefs.o prefs/audacity-DirectoriesPrefs.o prefs/audacity-EffectsPrefs.o prefs/audacity-ExtImportPrefs.o prefs/audacity-GUIPrefs.o prefs/audacity-ImportExportPrefs.o prefs/audacity-KeyConfigPrefs.o prefs/audacity-LibraryPrefs.o prefs/audacity-MidiIOPrefs.o prefs/audacity-ModulePrefs.o prefs/audacity-MousePrefs.o prefs/audacity-PlaybackPrefs.o prefs/audacity-PrefsDialog.o prefs/audacity-ProjectsPrefs.o prefs/audacity-QualityPrefs.o prefs/audacity-RecordingPrefs.o prefs/audacity-SpectrogramSettings.o prefs/audacity-SpectrumPrefs.o prefs/audacity-ThemePrefs.o prefs/audacity-TracksPrefs.o prefs/audacity-WarningsPrefs.o prefs/audacity-WaveformPrefs.o prefs/audacity-WaveformSettings.o toolbars/audacity-ControlToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-DeviceToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-EditToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-MeterToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-MixerToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-SelectionBar.o toolbars/audacity-SpectralSelectionBar.o toolbars/audacity-ToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-ToolDock.o toolbars/audacity-ToolManager.o toolbars/audacity-ToolsToolBar.o toolbars/audacity-TranscriptionToolBar.o widgets/audacity-AButton.o widgets/audacity-ASlider.o widgets/audacity-AttachableScrollBar.o widgets/audacity-ErrorDialog.o widgets/audacity-ExpandingToolBar.o widgets/audacity-FileHistory.o widgets/audacity-Grabber.o widgets/audacity-Grid.o widgets/audacity-HelpSystem.o widgets/audacity-HtmlWindow.o widgets/audacity-ImageRoll.o widgets/audacity-KeyView.o widgets/audacity-LinkingHtmlWindow.o widgets/audacity-Meter.o widgets/audacity-MultiDialog.o widgets/audacity-NumericTextCtrl.o widgets/audacity-numformatter.o widgets/audacity-ProgressDialog.o widgets/audacity-Ruler.o widgets/audacity-valnum.o widgets/audacity-Warning.o xml/audacity-XMLFileReader.o xml/audacity-XMLWriter.o export/audacity-ExportFFmpeg.o export/audacity-ExportFFmpegDialogs.o import/audacity-ImportFFmpeg.o effects/ladspa/audacity-LadspaEffect.o ondemand/audacity-ODDecodeFlacTask.o effects/nyquist/audacity-LoadNyquist.o effects/nyquist/audacity-Nyquist.o effects/lv2/audacity-LoadLV2.o effects/lv2/audacity-LV2Effect.o audacity-NoteTrack.o import/audacity-ImportMIDI.o effects/vamp/audacity-LoadVamp.o effects/vamp/audacity-VampEffect.o effects/VST/audacity-VSTEffect.o effects/VST/audacity-VSTControlGTK.o -pthread -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/witiko/programs/audacity/wxWidgets/lib  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so ../lib-src/FileDialog/.libs/libFileDialog.a -lportaudio -lm ../lib-src/portmixer/src/.libs/libportmixer.a -lsndfile -lsoxr ../lib-src/lib-widget-extra/.libs/libwidgetextra.a -L/home/witiko/programs/audacity/wxWidgets/lib -lwx_gtk2u_xrc-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_html-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_qa-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_core-3.0 -lwx_baseu_xml-3.0 -lwx_baseu_net-3.0 -lwx_baseu-3.0 -lFLAC++ -lFLAC /usr/lib/libid3tag.so -lz -lmad ../lib-src/libnyquist/libnyquist.a -lSoundTouch -ltwolame /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisenc.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisfile.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbis.so -logg ../lib-src/lv2/liblv2.a -lportSMF -lsbsms -lvamp-hostsdk -ldl -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so -lasound -ljack -lpthread -lrt -ludev -pthread
g++: error: ../lib-src/portmixer/src/.libs/libportmixer.a: No such file or directory
g++: error: ../lib-src/lib-widget-extra/.libs/libwidgetextra.a: No such file or directory
Makefile:1959: recipe for target 'audacity' failed
make[2]: *** [audacity] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/witiko/programs/audacity/src'
Makefile:1355: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/witiko/programs/audacity/src'
Makefile:726: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I’m not sure how libtool came up with the …/lib-src//.libs/.a paths. This isn’t fixed by dad346e (Fix build for Debian Stable), though:

$ git clean -fd -e wxWidgets
$ git reset --hard dad346e
$ autoreconf --no-recursive -i
$ ./configure WX_CONFIG="$PWD"/wxWidgets/wx-config 2>&1 | tee ~/configure-dad346e.log
$ make 2>&1 | tee ~/make-dad346e.log

This fails in a similar fashion:

$ tail -n12 make-dad346e.log 
libtool: link: g++ -Wno-unused-local-typedefs -I../lib-src/portmixer/include -DwxDEBUG_LEVEL=0 -Wall -I../include -I../lib-src/FileDialog -rdynamic -o audacity audacity-BlockFile.o audacity-DirManager.o audacity-Dither.o audacity-FileFormats.o audacity-Internat.o audacity-Prefs.o audacity-SampleFormat.o audacity-Sequence.o blockfile/audacity-LegacyAliasBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-LegacyBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-ODDecodeBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-ODPCMAliasBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-PCMAliasBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-SilentBlockFile.o blockfile/audacity-SimpleBlockFile.o xml/audacity-XMLTagHandler.o audacity-AboutDialog.o audacity-AColor.o audacity-AudacityApp.o audacity-AudacityLogger.o audacity-AudioIO.o audacity-AutoRecovery.o audacity-BatchCommandDialog.o audacity-BatchCommands.o audacity-BatchProcessDialog.o audacity-Benchmark.o audacity-Dependencies.o audacity-DeviceChange.o audacity-DeviceManager.o audacity-Diags.o audacity-Envelope.o audacity-FFmpeg.o audacity-FFT.o audacity-FileIO.o audacity-FileNames.o audacity-FreqWindow.o audacity-HelpText.o audacity-HistoryWindow.o audacity-ImageManipulation.o audacity-InterpolateAudio.o audacity-LabelDialog.o audacity-LabelTrack.o audacity-LangChoice.o audacity-Languages.o audacity-Legacy.o audacity-Lyrics.o audacity-LyricsWindow.o audacity-Matrix.o audacity-Menus.o audacity-Mix.o audacity-MixerBoard.o audacity-ModuleManager.o audacity-PitchName.o audacity-PlatformCompatibility.o audacity-PluginManager.o audacity-Printing.o audacity-Profiler.o audacity-Project.o audacity-RealFFTf.o audacity-RealFFTf48x.o audacity-Resample.o audacity-RingBuffer.o audacity-Screenshot.o audacity-SelectedRegion.o audacity-Shuttle.o audacity-ShuttleGui.o audacity-ShuttlePrefs.o audacity-Snap.o audacity-SoundActivatedRecord.o audacity-Spectrum.o audacity-SplashDialog.o audacity-SseMathFuncs.o audacity-Tags.o audacity-Theme.o audacity-TimeDialog.o audacity-TimerRecordDialog.o audacity-TimeTrack.o audacity-Track.o audacity-TrackArtist.o audacity-TrackPanel.o audacity-TrackPanelAx.o audacity-UndoManager.o audacity-ViewInfo.o audacity-VoiceKey.o audacity-WaveClip.o audacity-WaveTrack.o audacity-WrappedType.o commands/audacity-AppCommandEvent.o commands/audacity-BatchEvalCommand.o commands/audacity-Command.o commands/audacity-CommandBuilder.o commands/audacity-CommandDirectory.o commands/audacity-CommandHandler.o commands/audacity-CommandManager.o commands/audacity-CommandSignature.o commands/audacity-CommandType.o commands/audacity-CompareAudioCommand.o commands/audacity-ExecMenuCommand.o commands/audacity-GetAllMenuCommands.o commands/audacity-GetProjectInfoCommand.o commands/audacity-GetTrackInfoCommand.o commands/audacity-HelpCommand.o commands/audacity-ImportExportCommands.o commands/audacity-Keyboard.o commands/audacity-MessageCommand.o commands/audacity-OpenSaveCommands.o commands/audacity-PreferenceCommands.o commands/audacity-ResponseQueue.o commands/audacity-ScreenshotCommand.o commands/audacity-ScriptCommandRelay.o commands/audacity-SelectCommand.o commands/audacity-SetProjectInfoCommand.o commands/audacity-SetTrackInfoCommand.o effects/audacity-Amplify.o effects/audacity-AutoDuck.o effects/audacity-BassTreble.o effects/audacity-Biquad.o effects/audacity-ChangePitch.o effects/audacity-ChangeSpeed.o effects/audacity-ChangeTempo.o effects/audacity-ClickRemoval.o effects/audacity-Compressor.o effects/audacity-Contrast.o effects/audacity-DtmfGen.o effects/audacity-Echo.o effects/audacity-Effect.o effects/audacity-EffectManager.o effects/audacity-EffectRack.o effects/audacity-Equalization.o effects/audacity-Equalization48x.o effects/audacity-Fade.o effects/audacity-FindClipping.o effects/audacity-Generator.o effects/audacity-Invert.o effects/audacity-Leveller.o effects/audacity-LoadEffects.o effects/audacity-Noise.o effects/audacity-NoiseReduction.o effects/audacity-NoiseRemoval.o effects/audacity-Normalize.o effects/audacity-Paulstretch.o 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-lwx_gtk2u_xrc-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_html-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_qa-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_core-3.0 -lwx_baseu_xml-3.0 -lwx_baseu_net-3.0 -lwx_baseu-3.0 -lFLAC++ -lFLAC /usr/lib/libid3tag.so -lz -lmad ../lib-src/libnyquist/libnyquist.a -lSoundTouch -ltwolame /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisenc.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisfile.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbis.so -logg ../lib-src/lv2/liblv2.a -lportSMF ../lib-src/sbsms/src/.libs/libsbsms.a -lvamp-hostsdk -ldl -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so -lasound -ljack -lpthread -lrt -ludev -pthread
g++: error: ../lib-src/portmixer/src/.libs/libportmixer.a: No such file or directory
g++: error: ../lib-src/lib-widget-extra/.libs/libwidgetextra.a: No such file or directory
g++: error: ../lib-src/sbsms/src/.libs/libsbsms.a: No such file or directory
Makefile:1963: recipe for target 'audacity' failed
make[2]: *** [audacity] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/witiko/programs/audacity/src'
Makefile:1359: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/witiko/programs/audacity/src'
Makefile:805: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I’m curious, if there is some obvious mistake I’m making here. I did consult the available documentation [1,2], but that didn’t shed any light on the matter for me. I will be grateful for any pointers before I bury deep into the innards of Audacity. :slight_smile:
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2

Have you tried

sudo apt-get build-dep audacity

instead of “sudo apt install cmake automake autoconf”.

Gale

3

I did now, but the results are identical. I appologize about the late reply, I did not subscribe the thread, although I thought I did, so I wasn’t notified about your response.

4

You could install your local copy of wxWidgets then run

sudo ldconfig

This would be normal practice in my book anyway. The default installation of wxWidgets is to /usr/local/ so it should not mess up apps that use system wxWidgets.

In any case you can configure with

--prefix=

if you want a custom installation directory.


Gale

5

I ran

sudo make install && sudo ldconfig

in the the wxWidgets directory, then I reran

git clean -f && ./configure && make

within the audacity directory, but the result was the same as before when running

./configure WX_CONFIG="$PWD"/wxWidgets/wx-config
6

The /lib-src/portmixer/src/.libs/ folder should be there when building.

Have you tried the recommended

mkdir build




cd build




../configure --disable-dynamic-loading

so you don’t contaminate the source tree with the build files and folders, and so it is easier to build with ffmpeg?


Gale

7

I just realized that (since there are other other /lib-src/*/src/.libs/) and I’m making some progress here. Specifically, I entered each of the /lib-src/ directories reported in the error message (lib-src/portmixer, lib-src/lib-widget-extra) and regenerated the configure files using autoreconf --no-recursive -i. Then I reran ./configure and make -B and after that, the respective .a files were created. I’m not quite sure why this extra step is needed on my machine, but the linkage then proceeded without a hitch. :wink:

No, I did not try that. Is this a general autotools wisdom, or did I miss some part of the audacity manual?

8

I’m not sure if it is currently in the manual, but it was a tip given to me by one of the senior Audacity developers. Apparently it is fairly common practice to do this as it keeps the compiled object files separate from the source files, which is very helpful when developing on Linux.

9

Certainly not in the Manual - any compilation help beyond that in the source code is “generally” on the Audacity Wiki (see link at the top).

Steve wrote a couple of walk-throughs for Ubuntu (at the top of http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=19) but those assume the user does not compile wxWidgets.


Gale

10

Glad it’s working now. I am not sure why either, unless you have checked out more than once. Sometimes changes to latest Audacity HEAD may require you to regenerate the main configure file before running it.


Gale

11

I’m also glad, thank you for the assistance. :wink: I understand the need to regenerate the main configure file, when working with a non-release revision, but I’m wondering why the libraries don’t compile correctly without regenerating their configure files. Also, building in a build/ directory fails with the following error:

mv -f gtk/.deps/libFileDialog_la-FileDialogPrivate.Tpo gtk/.deps/libFileDialog_la-FileDialogPrivate.Plo
/bin/bash ./libtool    --mode=link g++     -o libFileDialog.la -rpath /usr/local/lib libFileDialog_la-FileDialog.lo gtk/libFileDialog_la-FileDialogPrivate.lo    -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype
libtool:   error: 'libFileDialog_la-FileDialog.lo' is not a valid libtool object
Makefile:536: recipe for target 'libFileDialog.la' failed
make[2]: *** [libFileDialog.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/witiko/programs/audacity/build/lib-src/FileDialog'
Makefile:1010: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/witiko/programs/audacity/build/lib-src'
Makefile:805: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

so there definitely seems to be something peculiar about my setup. But at least I now have a working build script (attached). Prior to 2.1.2, I somehow compiled Audacity without taking notes and after the update it just fell apart.

P.S.: I just noticed that there is a dedicated subforum for compiling, which contains up to date compilation instructions. I am sorry about the misplacement of the thread; I will check it out, if I encounter building issues in the future.
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