Hi, > Gentoo and *BSD users compile everything without complaining? Why? > Because most of the time compilation is dead simple on those platforms. > It Just Works. It is actually supposed to be that way on Debian, too. > There is a reason Gentoo-ers have claimed Cinelerra is broken beyond > repair: In their book, an application that does not Just Compile is > broken!
I just wanted to add some clarification about gentoo there : cinelerra for hw was claimed broken for many reasons ( almost unusable build system for automated compilation, libs are internal and statically linked, there used to be some api incompatibilities with some libs ). Since cinelerra cv was the same package but was more suited to our needs, we switched. What we do is to create a tarball from time to time of your svn repo, put it in our mirrors and update the ebuild (which is basically a bash script that makes compiling easy). Our point of creating snapshots of the svn repo is to make sure we can reproduce bugs when users find some and to not stress your svn server with every user that wants to install cinelerra by checkouting from your repo. Installing cinelerra on gentoo should be as simple as : "emerge cinelerra-cvs" after having tuned your use flags to enable/disable the features you want or not. (Perhaps this could be added to the get cinelerra page, let me know if you need more information about that) The first time cinelerra-cvs reached the gentoo official portage tree was on 18 Sep 2004, had several updates since that date, and lately I've been bumping some versions when there were important updates. For now the supported arches are x86, x86_64 and ppc (thanks to the recent updates and external ffmpeg for the latter) but any success reports on other arches are very welcome (through gentoo bugzilla) so that we can extend our support there. Of course users can still compile their own svn checkout but we try to keep the snapshots recent enough so that it's not needed. Regards, Alexis.
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