[PlanetCCRMA] Must I upgrade to build Ardour? (and more on jack and friends)

[Harri Haataja]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:06:16PM -0800, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> > That said, now you're supporting 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0? That quite a
> > menu. Maybe it's time for Leland to buy you some big fat machines
> > just for compiling all this stuff! ;-)
> 
> I'm not supporting 9 yet :-) And yes, 7.2 will have to go. I think I
> can (barely) do three versions, four is not an option, I just don't
> have the hardware for that. And nope, Leland is not buyin' me nutin',
> the crisis hit the endownment :-( I was using my laptop as the 8.0
> machine, another ccrma machine just for 7.3 rebuilds and a normal
> ccrma machine for 7.2 rebuilds. We're switching to 8, so the 7.3
> machine will stay, my laptop will have to do 9 and normal ccrma
> machines 8. 

If you have the diskspace, couldn't some of those be run in a chroot?
(Or even in a usermode kernel, though it may have limitations which
should not be a problem but just might.)

-- 
The DBAs will be whining because when you kill -9 Oracle, you get bits
and pieces left all over the place, and when re-started Oracle gets all
squeamish and frightened about what happened to it's predecessor. 
		-- Dan Holdsworth, in the Monastery