I'm having problems getting real-time MIDI input to work, and I suspect
that either it is broken in this release, or else there is some
compatability problem with my machine.

I think the conditional-compilation in midirecv.c is somehow broken.

Could someone who is sucessfully using Midi input on this release on
Linux give me some details on their system (libc or glibc, OSS or
OSS-free, etc).

Basically, rather than spending another evening debugging, I'm curious
if the distribution has in fact been build-tested on Linux.

John (JFF): do you still have a Linux machine to verify builds on, or is
it up to however downloads it and tries it? No offence intended here,
it's just that it would be helpfull when downloading a version to know
if in fact someone, somewhere, have built it from the sources and has it
working correctly on Linux. Then, when we have problems, they are easier
to solve if we know whether or not there is a chance that the sources
are broken vs. that we are just overlooking something.   

BTW any plans for putting this whole mess under a version control
system? 

Larry Troxler

I had the same problems with using realtime midi input. I thought maybe I
was forgetting a step in my composition, so I asked Dave Philips who
kindly sent me a couple of demo orc/scos for use with midi input. They
compiled fine, but no sound would come out when I played. I did a cat
/dev/midi > /dev/ttyx to make sure my midi port worked, which it did. Any
ideas what's wrong with the current release?

This whole problem is the reason why I'm currently trying to compile the
latest Linux developer's version. This annoying 'ld -lbsd' problem has
still got me stuck though. As I understand it, the bsd libs aren't
seperate anymore or something to that effect. The later Redhat versions
put a little workaround that allows you to use makefiles that use the
-lbsd option without having to change anything. I don't have that option,
and simply downloading those files from another machine hasn't worked
either. I'm at a loss here. 

Jason