libsndfile

titusdt · August 17, 2009, 10:24am

Hi all,

I tried to compile audacity from source code because for some reason I won’t explain, I can’t use a package manager. Yet I am new to linux so I am not used to manage every single library dependency when installing a software. To tell you the truth I liked it when I only had to drag and drop an application icon in the “Application folder”. Computers seemed magical and wise beings endowed both with rationality and supernatural abilities then …

Anyway, so I ran ./configure --prefix=$HOME/install because I am not an administrator, and I get the following error:

configure: error: Audacity requires libsndfile to be enabled

corresponding commands in configure file:

if test "$LIBSNDFILE_USE_LOCAL" != "yes" && test "$LIBSNDFILE_USE_SYSTEM" != "yes" ; then
   { { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: Audacity requires libsndfile to be enabled" >&5
$as_echo "$as_me: error: Audacity requires libsndfile to be enabled" >&2;}
   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
fi

LIBSNDFILE must be some environment variable but running printenv tells me it is not part of MY environment variables. Yet I know that the libsndfile library is on my system because:

locate libsndfile
/usr/lib64/libsndfile.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsndfile.so.1.0.17
/usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.17
/usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.17/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.17/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.17/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.17/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.17/README
/usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.17/TODO

what shall I do, gentlemen ?

cheers
gus

titusdt · August 17, 2009, 11:48am

Another way to put it is:

Where should my libsndfile library be installed in order for configure to run thoroughly ?
Should I have an environment variable setup to tell configure where to find my libsndfile library ?
What does audacity need to know about my libsndfile library ?

geebee · October 8, 2009, 9:55pm

Same problem.

look at the config.log

Package sndfile was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `sndfile.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘sndfile’ found
Use the locate command again

locate sndfile.pc

/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/sndfile.pc
(Guess this is probably where it is?)

echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH

/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
Some how sndfile.pc got installed but wasnt in the place specified in PKG_CONFIG_PATH
May be ok to just cp -p /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/sndfile.pc /usr/local/pkgconfig/sndfile.pc
#./configure
#make -j2
#make install

geebee · October 8, 2009, 10:25pm

Actually should but get the Correct PKG_CONFIG_PATH or
Reinstall libsndfile
You dont say libsndfile-1.0.20-i486-1sl.tgz
gunzip libsndfile-1.0 tar -tvf libsndfile-1 drwxr-xr-x root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root -rwxr-xr-x root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root drwxr-xr-x root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root -rw-r–r-- root/root Ignore the last not have said lib64 that would be wrong to move from lib64 to lib
idea you probably dont have /usr/local/lib in PKG_CONFIG_PATH or something like that.
what linux you use what package management but irrespective you can download the slackware package.
.20-i486-1sl.tgz
.0.20-i486-1sl.tar
0 2009-05-15 17:05 ./
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/bin/
11808 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/bin/sndfile-metadata-set
7180 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/bin/sndfile-metadata-get
8220 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/bin/sndfile-jackplay
11236 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/bin/sndfile-regtest
12148 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/bin/sndfile-convert
8612 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/bin/sndfile-info
4772 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/bin/sndfile-cmp
10664 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/bin/sndfile-play
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/
3122 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/libsndfile.SlackBuild
1615 2009-05-14 10:50 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/README
897 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/slack-desc
4646 2009-05-14 10:51 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/NEWS
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/
2644 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/bugs.html
760 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/tutorial.html
22193 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/index.html
30120 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/FAQ.html
2332 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/pkgconfig.html
1367 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/embedded_files.html
4572 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/new_file_type.HOWTO
3996 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/octave.html
40474 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/command.html
1601 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/lists.html
22043 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/libsndfile.jpg
26023 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/api.html
29720 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/dither.html
1562 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/libsndfile.css
1253 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/sndfile_info.html
1281 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/html/win32.html
7831 2009-03-22 19:17 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/INSTALL
635 2009-03-22 19:17 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/AUTHORS
258215 2009-05-14 11:19 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/ChangeLog
26518 2009-03-22 19:17 usr/doc/libsndfile-1.0.20/COPYING
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/lib/
391960 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.20
1048 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/lib/libsndfile.la
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/lib/pkgconfig/
243 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/lib/pkgconfig/sndfile.pc
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/man/
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/man/man1/
505 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/man/man1/sndfile-play.1.gz
411 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/man/man1/sndfile-info.1.gz
420 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/man/man1/sndfile-convert.1.gz
0 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/include/
20074 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/include/sndfile.h
10156 2009-05-15 17:05 usr/include/sndfile.hh
0 2009-05-15 17:05 install/
897 2009-05-15 17:05 install/slack-desc
251 2009-05-15 17:05 install/slack-required
198 2009-05-15 17:05 install/doinst.sh
install files but above is what you should have.

OK in time to write this, slow make on crappy computer I just had to install on now worked OK.
I

titusdt · October 14, 2009, 10:09am

Hi

Problem solved: it appears that libsndfile was not in the lib-src folder. So i just dowloaded libsndfile and put it there