Error during compilation of audacity 2.0.1 Linux

Programming and Development Compiling Audacity
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Hi everybody

I just tried to compile Audacity 2.0.1 for RHEL / Centos 6

All dependancies are found but at the end of the configure I get the following error message :

config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
=== configuring in lib-src/libogg (/download/audacity-src-2.0.1/lib-src/libogg)
configure: running /bin/sh ./configure '--prefix=/usr/local/'  '--with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config' '--disable-programs' '--disable-programs' '--disable-programs' '--with-pa-include=../portaudio-v19/include' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-wx-config, --disable-programs, --disable-programs, --disable-programs, --with-pa-include
./configure: line 2050: syntax error near unexpected token `libogg,1.1.3'
./configure: line 2050: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libogg,1.1.3)'
configure: error: ./configure failed for lib-src/libogg

and no make is possible.

How should I do ?

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You have unrecognised configure options.

To point Audacity to Widgets at /usr/bin/wx-config (if you need to), prefix the Audacity ./configure command with a command to set the WX_CONFIG environment variable. For example:

WX_CONFIG=/usr/bin/wx-config  ./configure <options and arguments>

Did you type any of those --disable-programs options in your configure command? I see some of those --disable-programs entries in the output for a default configure, but not as many as you have. Can you post your complete configure command?


Gale

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Hi and thanks for your reply.

No I didn’t change at all. I downloaded the sources, installed wxGTK-devel.

I have

$ locate wx-config
/usr/bin/wx-config

and I ran the configure and make out of the box without any change. And it seems that the ‘–with-wx-config=/usr/bin/wx-config’ is in the configure file at line 6046.

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Try compiling HEAD instead of the 2.0.1 tarball ( http://audacityteam.org/community/developers#svn ) .

Use ./configure without any options or arguments.




Gale

5

Hi

Sorry I didn’t understand what HEAD is ? Could you explain pls ?

Thanks

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From the SVN source code (see the link that Gale posted)

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And there is no way to download all the svn together in only one file as zip or bz2 ?

svn is too complex.

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Just connect to the internet, open a terminal and type the command shown in the link:

svn checkout http://audacity.googlecode.com/svn/audacity-src/trunk/ audacity-read-only

Hit ENTER. That creates and downloads the entire Audacity code to an “audacity-read-only” directory inside your current directory (no unzip needed). You can call the directory something other than “audacity-read-only” in that checkout command as long as the directory does not already exist.

Then run

cd <the directory you downloaded to>
./configure
sudo make install

Gale

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Thanks

I had to install “subversion” before all and then I downloaded the sources as you said.

I had to install also libid3tag-devel then finally I was able to compile .

Now when I can open audacity but I can’t play any sound : in the Edit/Preferences/devices, all the choices are in blank and I can’t modify them

What can be the issue ?

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What sound system does your computer use? ALSA, OSS, OSS4, Jack, PulseAudio, something else?

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RHEL 6 /CentOs 6 use pulseaudio.

Do I have something more to install ?

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I’d recommend that you install pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control). This probably won’t fix the immediate problem, but you will find it useful later.

When you run ./configure if you scroll up a bit from the bottom of the output text you should see that it says:

configure: ---------------------------------------
configure: Including support for OSS
configure: Including support for ALSA
configure: ---------------------------------------

then a bit higher up, something like:

Configuration summary:

  Target ...................... i686-pc-linux-gnu
  C++ bindings ................ no
  Debug output ................ no

  ALSA ........................ yes
  ASIHPI ...................... no

  OSS ......................... yes
  JACK ........................ yes

It is essential that ALSA is enabled - do you get that?

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Hi !

No here is the output of this section :

  Target ...................... i686-pc-linux-gnu
  C++ bindings ................ no
  Debug output ................ no

  ALSA ........................ no
  ASIHPI ...................... no

  OSS ......................... yes
  JACK ........................ no

How can I change that ?

And there is no package named pavucontrol in Centos, but it seems that it has been renamed as gnome-volume-control. For me, it is the same that I have under Fedora.
Thx

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I don’t think it is.
I think that gnome-volume-control may be based on pavucontrol but I’m not sure that is has the full functionality of pavucontrol.

Do you have alsamixer? (try typing alsamixer in a terminal window.)

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Yes I have alsamixer shown in its windows

its indicate : chip: pulseaudio, card: pulseaudio, and selected sound card = default

and I see also in the configure file :

$ grep -i alsa *
configure: LIBSNDFILE_LOCAL_CONFIGURE_ARGS="–disable-sqlite --disable-external-libs > –disable-alsa> "

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Ensure that you have libsndfile installed (and the development headers if separate on your OS).

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Yes I have it :

 # rpm -qa | grep  libsndfile
libsndfile-devel-1.0.20-5.el6.i686
libsndfile-1.0.20-5.el6.i686
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What about libasound2 ?

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I don’t find anything about libasound or libasound2.

which files are included in it, maybe I can search for them ?

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That is probably the problem.
libasound2 is the shared library for ALSA applications and is required for ALSA support.

I think that you must have libasound2 installed if sound is working in other programs, but you need the development headers for building applications with ALSA support.

Google brings up: RPM OpenSuSE 11.X libasound2-32bit 1.0.23 x86_64 rpm
but I’d have thought that libasound2 would have to be in the standard repository.