>I normally do use rpm if I can, but was born a slackware type, so
>tarballs are my "natural" form when needed. In this case, it is not an
>rpm problem...the error message did not mention the devel package.
>Looking closer, including the config.log, the error looks to be in error
>itself:
>configure:1758: checking for main in -lsndfile
>configure:1773: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker
>libs/lib conftest.c -lsndfile -Llibs/lib -lsigc -lpthread 1>&5
>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsndfile
>
>
>I say the error in the log is itself in error because I can easily
>compile and use -lsndfile. ldconfig -p shows it. I don't know why
do you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to include the directory in which
libsndfile.so resides? anyway, i'm not quite sure what the above error
means. why does bother me are the -Xlinker args.
Which version of Ardour are you using? the tarball? sheez, i need to
get rid of that. its so out of date, as is the build process it used.
--p
