Problem compiling 1.3.6 and CVS

Programming and Development Compiling Audacity
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Hi, I have been trying to compile the latest CVS version and the regular 1.3.6 version. They both return the same error:

$ cd audacity
[arklinux@localhost audacity]$ make
make -C lib-src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src'
make -C FileDialog
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/FileDialog'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/FileDialog'
ln -sf FileDialog/FileDialog.a FileDialog.a
make -C libresample libresample.a
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/libresample'
make[2]: `libresample.a' is up to date.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/libresample'
ln -sf libresample/libresample.a libresample.a
make -C libnyquist/misc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/libnyquist/misc'
make[2]: `intgen' is up to date.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/libnyquist/misc'
make -C libnyquist
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/libnyquist'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `current'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/libnyquist'
ln -sf libnyquist/libnyquist.a libnyquist.a
make -C libvamp
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/libvamp'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `default'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/libvamp'
ln -sf libvamp/vamp-sdk/libvamp-hostsdk.a libvamp-hostsdk.a
make -C twolame
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/twolame'
cd . && /bin/sh /home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/twolame/build/missing --run aclocal-1.10
configure.ac:97: error: AC_SUBST: `SNDFILE_CFLAGS ' is not a valid shell variable name
configure.ac:97: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
make[2]: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src/twolame'
make[1]: *** [libtwolame-recursive] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/arklinux/audacity/lib-src'
make: *** [audacity] Error 2

Every day, I’ll do a 'cvs up ‘P -d’, and I still get the same error. I would appreciate the help in fixing this. Thanks in advance.

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I forgot to mention, I’m using Ark Linux to try to compile.

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I also have problems with compiling 1.3.6 CVS version. I want to help develop this program, but I’m confused with such error.

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I’m getting similar (but different) fatal compile errors on Ubuntu 8.10 when compiling from the 1.3.6 source Tarball.

During the compile there was an error:

*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.

I don’t know if that has anything to do with it, but that’s the only error during the compile.

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I’ve discovered the solution to this problem -
Compiling on Ubuntu requires “libgtk2.0-dev” to be installed.

There is a write up of installing Audacity 1.3.6 from the tarball here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8249