Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question

[hackmiester / Hunter Fuller]

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:46, Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote:
> Hi!
><snip>
>
> I tried "make --with-default-tmpdir=/mnt/ramfs" and received a message
> informing me that this is not correct Make syntax.
No, you've got it all wrong! To build an application, you generally do this:

./configure
make
make install #if you want to install it

So, in the case of that application, it means do this:

./configure --with-default-tmpdir=/mnt/ramfs"
make
make install #if you want to install it

>
> Am I supposed to edit the config file(s) that accompany the source
> code?  If so, which one(s), config.h.in, configure, configure.ac or one
> of the files in the config directory of this package?
>
> This is probably a very simple matter, but I have googled around and
> cannot find an answer.  Any comments, suggestions or advice would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Lawrence
>
> JACK README
>
> Welcome to JACK, the Jack Audio Connection Kit.
>
> Please see the website (http://jackit.sf.net/) for more information.
>
> NOTE: If you are using reiserfs or ext3fs or anything except ext2fs
> for the directory where JACK puts its temporary files (/tmp by
> default), then the JACK team recommends that you do *one* of the
> following:
>
> ----------------------------
>
> Mount a tmpfs on /tmp.  You should have a lot of swap space available
> in case some programs try to write very large files there.
> In your /etc/fstab add a line:
>
>    none        /tmp    tmpfs   defaults        0       0
>
>  You'll probably want to reboot here, or kill X then 'mount /tmp'.
>
> ---- OR ----
>
> Alternatively, you can do this without affecting your /tmp:
>
> # mkdir /mnt/ramfs
>
> [edit /etc/fstab and add the following line]
>  none       /mnt/ramfs      tmpfs      defaults  0 0
>
> Then add --with-default-tmpdir=/mnt/ramfs to the JACK configure
> line when you build it.  No clients need to be recompiled.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Failure to do one of these could lead to extremely poor performance from
> JACK,
> since its normal operation will cause bursts of disk I/O that are
> completely unnecessary. This suggestion can also be used by ext2fs
> users if they wish.
>
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