[PD] error compiling sndfiler~

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 21, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Sam, 2012-12-15 at 18:42 +0100, Bart Koppe wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:44 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
>> wrote:
>>        On 12/15/2012 15:27, Bart Koppe wrote:
>>                Dear List!
>> 
>>                I'm trying to compile sndfiler from svn but I get
>>                errors. I need it
>>                since I need to play ogg files to an icecast stream.
>> 
>> 
>>        most likely [readanysf~] (which is newer than [sndfiler~])
>>        will do the job as well.
>> Yes, found this to in the end. Had some problems with the rdz PPA, but
>> in the end I could install it, and it works! 
> 
> Do you mind telling me what sort of troubles you had with the PPA? If
> there is anything to fix, I'd like to fix it [*].
> 
> Roman
> 
> [*] That said, it's too bad Ubuntu 12.04 (the first very long time
> release) still has a broken pd-readanysf package. Though the problem is
> actually fixed upstream, no-one ever pushed the fix through
> Debian/Ubuntu package management (it seems so overly tedious, but I
> really should dig into it once). 

It should be possible to get a fixed one uploaded.  Seems worthwhile since 12.04 is a long term support release.  The first step is to file a bug report on it, and mention that they can just upload the newer version of the package.  Then you have to find someone to nag to upload it.

.hc