Re: [fluid-dev] Proposal: FluidSynth tester program

[Aere Greenway]

David:

I performed the steps for retrieving and building the release-candidate fluidsynth.  Though it complained that DOXYGEN (or something like that) was not found, it seemed to build and install without any error.  

I can supply printouts of the entire process, if that would be helpful.  

My testing also went well, since I did not discover any problems.  

The problem I have in doing this testing, is that I have no way of knowing if it used the libfluidsynth1 generated during the process, or what I was using before (the repackaged version of your PPA for Ubuntu 11.10).  

According to Synaptic Package Manager, the installed version is from your PPA (residing in /usr/lib).  

Yet I do see the newly generated version (with today's date/time) in /usr/local/lib).  

I would remove the other version, but if I do so, it will take out a fair number of other packages along with it that I really don't want to have to re-install.  

Is there some way I can definitively know which library Qsynth uses when I run the test?  

Without that, I don't know if I tested the former version, or the new version.  

- Aere

On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 06:59 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> On 07/24/2012 07:10 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> > David:
> >
> > Where can I find instructions on how to generate the test system (on
> > Ubuntu Linux), without taking away qjackctl (which I will need for testing)?
>
> There is a wiki page
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/BuildingWithCMake
> but in short, here's how to do it on Ubuntu:
>
> 1) unpack the tarball and cd into that directory (fluidsynth-1.1.6)
>
> 2) install dependencies:
> sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake
> sudo apt-get build-dep fluidsynth
>
> 3) build:
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ..
> make
>
> 4) Run
> sudo make install
> ...to install the new version. Once you have finished testing, run
> sudo make uninstall
> ...to revert to the version that comes with Ubuntu.
>
> 5) Make sure you restart QSynth or other applications using FluidSynth 
> after running "sudo make install" or "sudo make uninstall".
>
> Please *do not* move .so files, or files in /usr/bin, around manually. 
> Only use "sudo make install" / "sudo make uninstall" to switch installed 
> FluidSynth version.
>
> // David

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Sincerely,
Aere