[PlanetCCRMA] Bristol (was 'Alsa Modular Synth')

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Thu Mar 8 08:32:01 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:09 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:16 +0100, Frode Petersen wrote:
> > Frode Petersen skrev:
> > > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano skrev:
> > >>> Have anyone tried Bristol btw? (vintage synth emulator)
> > >>
> > >> Yep, briefly, very very nice.
> > >> I just added it to the fc5/fc6 repos (only tested on fc6 i386). I did
> > >> not add a menu entry for it as it starts several processes and there is
> > >> no way of cleanly exiting all of them from the GUI (that I could see).
> > >> If you type "bristol -help" you should get some help - that help is
> > >> missing the "-jack" option which is the one I used.
> > >> I tried (for example) "bristol -jack -2600" and got a nice ARP2600
> > >> replica ... ohhhhh ... :-)
> > > 
> > > Got to try it then!
> > 
> > I have some problems running Bristol. I checked the 
> > /usr/share/bristol/bin directory, and it contains only startBristol. 
> > Should there be more there? In smart, the bristol package content 
> > listing does not show anything not installed.
> > 
> > Here's the output:
> > 
> > $ bristol -jack -2600
> > /usr/share/bristol/bin/startBristol: line 202: [: too many arguments
> > /usr/share/bristol/bin/startBristol: line 229: [: 128: binary operator 
> > expected
> > ldd: /usr/share/bristol/bin/bristol: Ingen slik fil eller filkatalog
> > Requested Jack drivers, not compiled into bristol
> > $
> > 
> > It's strange since you issued the same command and got it running.
> 
> As I said, only tested on fc6 i386... I bet you are running on x86_64...
> something went wrong on that build. I'll check later. Sorry. 

It was (I hope) an easy fix, the source had /usr/lib hardwired as a
library search path, should have been /usr/lib64 for x86_64. 

I rolled out a new package. I don't know if it does work but at least it
seems to have the required binaries there :-)

-- Fernando