[SOLVED] Makepkg was unable to build lib32-portaudio.

Question

Okay so i dusted off my old PS2 the other day and decided i wanted to play some old games for nostalgic sake when i came to realize it is still broken. So i looked for a decent emulator and found PCSX2. Now, i had some missing dependencies that needed to be installed and i worked on it for a few hours and got every dependency to install except lib32-portaudio. And don't get me wrong, Iv'e looked both at the PCSX2 website and the Arch wiki and forums and iv'e googled and looked at Ubuntu forums and whatnot. I looked everywhere i could think of, and i can't find anything at all on this issue so i'm hoping someone will be able to help me here. I guess the relevant part of the error message that i get is this:
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../libjack.so when searching for -ljack
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libjack.so when searching for -ljack
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljack
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [lib/libportaudio.la] Error 1
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build lib32-portaudio.
And Iv'e re-installed portaudio at least 3 times since i figured the error had something to do with it. Through pacman, downloading the package from the dev website, and even trying the Ubuntu repos and it seems to be successfully installed each time. I'm fairly new to Linux but i'm a very persistent person and i wouldn't give up without at least a days worth of pulling out my hair in frustration, and through trial and error, so as far as my knowledge reaches, iv'e tried my best to solve it on my own. Oh, and i'm building/installing from the AUR if that would make a difference. Appreciate any help.
edit
Been a long time, with no help, but i finally gave it another go. This time successfull! I just recently re-installed Arch, this time running openbox, and without any issues whatsoever, it installed on the first try. I think i had a shitload of conflicting and missing dependencies on my last install and that's what caused it.. I don't know if this will help anyone if you ever run in to this problem, there isn't much to add, Only thing is that I'm running a clean install and i use the nvidia driver and nvidia-utils, and all the ALSA sound drivers and utilities. Oh and i'm running openbox as a stand-alone WM. That's all the relevant info i think. Now i'm looking forward to configuration hell for the games i'm gonna run, haha!
Last edited by waspy (2011-05-26 18:42:23)

Answer 1

ChoK wrote:It seems like you need lib32-jack and the maintainer of lib32-portaudio forgot to add it to makedepends/depends
Iv'e got lib32-jack already installed. And by reading the comments of the AUR link to the package ( lib32-portaudio ) they supposedly fixed the PKGBUILD too.