Re: [fluid-dev] Apt package dependencies -- WAS Re: Proposal: FluidSynth tester program

2012-08-05 Thread Aere Greenway
Jimmy: I think I did understand (after careful evaluation) each of the decision points in the build process. Having done this before (with David's help), I knew I was exposing my test systems to some degree of risk. That's why I didn't use any of my primary partitions for doing this testing.

Re: [fluid-dev] Proposal: FluidSynth tester program

2012-08-05 Thread jimmy
--- On Sat, 8/4/12, "Aere Greenway" wrote: > Where it has been stated that there are no fluidsynth > dependencies on > jack, I think you should re-examine that claim, based on the > problems I > encountered.  Fluidsynth can be compiled with just Alsa, no need for Jack. So the claim is valid

Re: [fluid-dev] Apt package dependencies -- WAS Re: Proposal: FluidSynth tester program

2012-08-05 Thread jimmy
--- On Sun, 8/5/12, jimmy wrote: > If you still don't understand what I have written, it would > still be a big baffling mistery for you. Sorry, "mystery" not "mistery". More on decoding "apt-get" command you used. From the info you posted: >>> aere@Aere-HP-Vectra:~/fluidsynth-1.1.6$ sudo a

Re: [fluid-dev] Apt package dependencies -- WAS Re: Proposal: FluidSynth tester program

2012-08-05 Thread jimmy
--- On Sun, 8/5/12, Aere Greenway wrote: > > The problem I am experiencing is with trying to run a test > of the fluidsynth release candidate.  > Again, the real problem was depencies around a package that was alread installed on your system: libjack-dev which requires libjack0 w

Re: [fluid-dev] Apt package dependencies -- WAS Re: Proposal: FluidSynth tester program

2012-08-05 Thread Aere Greenway
Jimmy: The problem I am experiencing is with trying to run a test of the fluidsynth release candidate. The set of components I use work fine with jackd2, and that is what they want (and install as dependencies). When I attempt to build fluidsynth, it has a set of dependencies which conflict

[fluid-dev] Apt package dependencies -- WAS Re: Proposal: FluidSynth tester program

2012-08-05 Thread jimmy
--- On Sun, 8/5/12, Aere Greenway wrote: > Given the problems I had getting qjackctl to co-exist with > the generated > version of fluidsynth, I am puzzled by why I had no problems > with my > Ubuntu partition.  My guesses why are as follows: > > 1. I had previously done some testing of a Rose