Fluidsynth install fails

[David McKenna]

Using ANPM to install, I get this message:

[u'ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:', 'flac8.dll is needed by fluidsynth-libs-2.0.4-1.pentium4', 'vorbis0.dll is needed by fluidsynth-libs-2.0.4-1.pentium4', 'vorbise2.dll is needed by fluidsynth-libs-2.0.4-1.pentium4', u'Please report this error at ​http://trac.netlabs.org/rpm/']

BTW, why does fluidsynth attempt to install automake. autoconf and other development libraries?

[tellie]

Hi David,

Will look at it asap...

I have to look @ .spec file why it tried to install those auto* and other progs for dev.
Afaik it don't need those a requirements...

[David McKenna]

Thanks! It looks like the new Flac wants to install development stuff too. On the other hand, libvorbis only installs a couple of text files....

[tellie]

Hi
Please try the just uploaded fluidsynth
I have remove from the flac the dev stuff

[David McKenna]

OK, thanks, install proceeds and completes now. It still insists on installing these development packages:

autoconf
automake
flac-devel
libogg-devel
libvorbis-devel
perl-Data-Dumper
pkgconfig

Seems these should only be required by the fluidsynth-devel package.

Now to try out fluidsynth....

[tellie]

Hi David,

The flac, libogg and the libvorbis are required for the Fluidsynth
The other ones i still have no clue.
Please try to remove the flac install and reinstall then again.

[David McKenna]

Uninstalled flac and tried to reinstall, but it still wants to install autoconf and friends.

Tried using fluidsynth and found it needs a soundfont file. Found one I liked (tried several), but it seems fluidsynth on OS/2 will only create a WAV file from a MIDI file - it does not play the MIDI file in real time. Maybe I misunderstood what fluidsynth was for. In any case, it would be good if an RPM could be created for a default soundfont file for fluidsynth since it is required to use it. I found the 'GeneralUser' soundfont worked well...

[David McKenna]

OK, just tried this again and the situation is much better, but still some strange things. Flac-libs demands to install libogg-devel. Also, Flac-libs installs a big pile of Flac api documents that are completely un-neccessary...

[Silvan Scherrer]

the flac spec file is completely broken. This need a big overhaul. after that all issues should be resolved. When and if Elbert does it I have no idea, I just had a small look at the spec.

[Tellie]

Hi,

Will bring out a newer flac this week.
I will close this ticket.
Please reopen a new ticket if there is any problem