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Re: Getting csound for linux ??

Date1999-09-22 15:29
FromVarga István
SubjectRe: Getting csound for linux ??
> Can you describe these improvements?  When were they reported before?
> I must have missed them

 - bugfix in Makefile: it should run "./makedb" instead of "makedb" (generally,
a program should not assume that "." is in the path, and also "makedb"
is a GNU utility and it's very likely that on many systems that program
will be run instead of csound's makedb)

 - bugfix in getstring.c: (see patch file for details)

 - on some newer Linux systems "libbsd.a" is renamed to "libbsd-compat.a"

 - Makefile settings default to Linux (as I wrote this diff file is for Linux users,
   as the subject was "Getting Csound for Linux")

 - new function that allows Csound to run with real-time priority (-DLINUX_RT);
   this requires root privileges, or setting the csound executable to setuid root
   (in the latter case it gives up root privileges after calling sched_setscheduler()
   and mlockall(); it also will not use real-time priority when rendering to a file (as
   that can lock up the system rather solidly). When csound is run as a normal
   user the function does not do anything, and just returns)