Re: [linux-audio-dev] ardour Q

[Paul Davis]

>With respect to Paul's suggestion that installing libraries from
>packages is asking for trouble, I beg to differ. I'm inclined to
>think that if packages cause trouble, it's that there's a bug
>somewhere, either in the package or in the app. Lib packages are
>not inherently broken IMHO ; they usually work for me.

then you haven't done much with C++ libraries, especially since the
debacle of RH's move to gcc 2.96, which broke binary compatibility
with g++ 2.95. not only that, but i have heard that there were
intermediate versions of gcc they packaged with are not even binary
compatible with each other.

in addition, you get RPMs that weren't built correctly. its quite
common on the C++-based mailing lists i'm on to hear "it crashed, so i
fetched the tarball, built+installed from that, and now it works
great".

--p