What software do you use with an ipod nano ?

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Tue Dec 5 23:43:58 UTC 2006


On 05Dec2006 17:18, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
| > You'd imagine --prefix would arrange all that for you, but
| > apparently not. Sigh. I hate Configure:-(
| 
| That one seems more like a pkgconfig thing, just so you're sure to
| channel your hate in the right place. :)

My hate is well channelled. configure should be setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH
when running pkgconfig, as a consequence of telling configure the
--prefix. It's on par with the silly CFLAGS and LDFLAGS fiddling I have
to do. For the very normal values I'm supplying, configure should be
doing it.

| > Also, gtkpod is a little sensitive to the existing .gtkpod dir and
| > the IPod contents. Tends to crash:-( So: remove your .gtkpod
| > directory before running the first time.
| 
| Hmmm, I don't recall the last time I wiped mine clean.  There was a
| change in the prefs file code a few months back that had some rough
| edges for a few days but I think that was all sorted out fairly
| quickly.  That's probably the last time I had to move anything around.

It was just getting started. And running other gtkpod versions probably
didn't help.

| I filed an RFE to update libgpod to something newer[1].  I'm hopeful
| that once 0.4.1 is released that will happen, which shouldn't be too
| long.
| [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211648

Ta. Have tried to subscribe ("Add CC") but bugzilla blew up at me:-(
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