Regular build worked fine. Building with portmidi enabled fails. All 
based on checking out freshly from CVS today, gentoo linux.

- portmidi fail:
> /lib/libportmidi.a(pmlinuxalsa.o)(.text+0x1458): In function `pm_linuxalsa_term':
> pm_linux/pmlinuxalsa.c:723: undefined reference to `snd_seq_close'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> scons: *** [cscore] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.

I know portmidi is working on this machine because I have successfully 
built my own port midi apps.

Other thoughts:

- the README file tells you to read csound.pdf. This used to be a nice 
small pdf on how to build csound, now it's a monstrous manual that takes 
forever to open, and in the gnome pdf viewer at any rate, is illegible 
goobledygook. Sure, the gnome pdf viewer is lame, but not that lame, 
something is seriously wrong there. I think a short file specifically on 
getting csound5 to build and work was a good plan. And I freaking hate 
pdf manuals.

- there is a NEWS file that is blank. weird

- the Loadable_Opcodes.txt file has a nice list, but no instructions on 
what *to do* to make your opcodes load. Maybe a quick explanation of how 
to get them to load would be nice in the same place. I've done it 
before, but I can't remember how 'cause it's been a while, and looks 
like I'll be hunting through list archives to find out 'cause I sure 
can't read that manual ...

thanks
iain

I just updated alsa-lib to 1.0.6, and still the same thing. Could I have 
portmidi installed incorectly or something? I have been able to compile 
my own portmidi apps, but it is very possible that I have it set up 
wrong or something.

error again:
> /lib/libportmidi.a(pmlinuxalsa.o)(.text+0x1458): In function `pm_linuxalsa_term':
> pm_linux/pmlinuxalsa.c:723: undefined reference to `snd_seq_close'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> scons: *** [cscore] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.

thanks
iain

jpff@codemist.co.uk wrote:
> snd_seq_close is defined in alsa-lib-1.0.4/src/seq/seq.c and so is in
> the alsa library.  What version etc of ALSA do you have?  
> ==John ffitch
> 
> 

> Is -lalsa before -lportmidi in the build?  If so that could cause
> problems as portmidi makes references to alsa

Can you tell me how I would find that out? I'm not sure where in the 
output to look. However looking made me find what I consider to be very 
bad behaviour as we currently have scons working:

If in your SConstruct file you ask for various options, ie portaudio, 
fltk, etc, and then scons doesn't find the header files where it's 
expecting to, instead of failing, it just builds anyway without those 
options. Considering on a fast machine all that stuff just blazes by way 
too fast to read, I didn't even notice that I wasn't actually managing 
to build with portaudio or fltk or csoundvst until I went looking back 
through the output. Personally I think this is bad.

Better instructions on what scons is going to look for where might be 
useful too I guess.

thanks
iain

So the real problem was that I was not buidling with portaudio, without 
knowing it. Audacity had put portaudio v19 somewhere funky, so while it 
was on the machine, it wasn't in the normal spot. A reinstall of the 
portaudio v19 snapshot solved this. After that was done, building with 
both portaudio and portmidi worked. I guess that's a gotcha we hadn't 
found yet, portmidi depending on portaudio, or at least that's not 
documented I don't think.

The above serves as a good example of why I think scons should fail if 
your chosen options aren't found working. I had no idea I wasn't 
building with portaudio successfully. Ooops. ; )

Now, what did everyone want tested with portmidi?

iain

jpff@codemist.co.uk wrote:
> snd_seq_close is defined in alsa-lib-1.0.4/src/seq/seq.c and so is in
> the alsa library.  What version etc of ALSA do you have?  
> ==John ffitch
> 
> 

snd_seq_close is defined in alsa-lib-1.0.4/src/seq/seq.c and so is in
the alsa library.  What version etc of ALSA do you have?  
==John ffitch

Is -lalsa before -lportmidi in the build?  If so that could cause
problems as portmidi makes references to alsa
==John ffitch