Re: [fluid-dev] Fluidsynth on 64-bit Linux

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Apr 20, 2009, at 1:07 AM, Josh Green wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 16:59 -0400, Ebrahim Mayat wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > To 64-bit Debian users, I am forwarding this message that I received
> > off-list. It would be appreciated if anybody could assist/test on
> > 64-bit Linux.
> >
> >        The latest svn (r168) has a persistent make error, when
> >        compiling from source.
> >
> >        On 64studio 64bit:
> >
> >        Compiles ok, with Jack recognised as present.
> >
> >        Make goes wrong with: " /bin/sed: Can't
> >        read /usr/lib64/libjack.la: No such file or directory."
> >        "libtool: link: '/usr/lib64/libjack.la' is not a valid libtool
> >        archive."
> >
> >        Any clues?
> >
> >        Alex.
> >
> >        p.s. I can add fluidsynth 0.8.2 from synaptic for 64studio
> >        64bit, so i still have a usable version. I've only D/L and
> >        compiled from SVN as a test to report back to you Fluidsynth
> >        devs.
> >
> > It would be interesting how fluidsynth could perform with huge
> > soundfonts (> 4 GB of RAM).
> >
> > E
>
> Did you ever figure out what was going on with this issue?  A lot of
> times I find that build issues on the Mac are not isolated to one
> project and can find other info on the Internet if I search for the
> right error messages.

Josh

My question is not related to any Mac issue :-]

This query is directed to anybody who could be using a 64-bit Debian  
distro (David ? Bernat ?).
My guess is that fluidsynth needs to be made 64-bit compatible so that  
linking against 64-bit capable libjack can be accomplished without  
error.

E