I am planning to move the Csound 5 manual, currently this huge PDF, into
the regular docbook manual. Thanks to Steven Yi for changing the docbook
toolchain to a more tractable form. I will change the makefile in the
docbook manual to build one manual for Csound 4, and another manual with
the new material for Csound 5. The regular manual is by default HTML but
can also be CHM or PDF. This will probably happen in January or February.

Original Message:
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From: Iain Duncan iainduncan@telus.net
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:26:02 -0800
To: csound-dev@eartha.mills.edu
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:5724] Csound5 build report and thoughts


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


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