Public bug reported:
I wanted to make a modification to praat, so first I checked that I
could compile praat (unaltered) from its source package. It compiled
but it would not run.
I installed a new clean version of Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 on my computer.
I installed the binary package praat 4.4.19-1unbuntu1 (and its
dependency lesstif2) from the Dapper repository. This ran praat OK and
opened the expected praat windows.
I then installed all the packages which are listed as dependencies of
the praat 4.4.19-1ubuntu1 source package (lesstif2-dev, linxmu-dev etc)
and installed the gcc package.
I downloaded praat-4.4.19.orig.tar.gz, extracted it, entered the
sources/4419 directory and copied makefiles/makefile.defs.linux.dynamic
to makefile.defs as instructed.
"make" compiled a praat executable OK (size 4753913 bytes).
When I did:
./praat
to run the praat program, I got no praat window, and CPU usage went to 100% and
remained there until I did CTRL-C. There was no error message on the console
and no console prompt until I did CTRL-C.
Doing:
praat
to run the version in /usr/bin (from the Dapper binary respository) still
worked OK and opened the expected praat windows. I note that the Dapper binary
is 4293516 bytes in size compared with the 4753913 bytes of the one which I
built.
The same problem occurred when I downloaded the current source (4.4.30)
from www.praat.org.
So, how do I build a copy of praat from source which runs on Ubuntu
Dapper?
** Affects: praat (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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praat won't run when compiled from its source package
https://launchpad.net/bugs/65494
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