I download the tarball…
I installed scons
I read all the manuals I could find…
linux:/usr/src/ardour-0.99.3 # scons
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/scons”, line 143, in ?
import SCons.Script
ImportError: No module named SCons.Script
linux:/usr/src/ardour-0.99.3 #
is what I get when I try to run scons in the root directory of the tarballs extraction:
/usr/src/ardour-0.99.3
any ideas?
cheers 
ok… I run a AMD 64bit processor.
so the LIB directory searches in the scons /usr/bin/scons script were not finding the Lib64 directory…
So I amended the script where it say ‘lib’ at teh end os the script I just put ‘lib64’ - so scons then ran a bit and came up with…
linux:/usr/src/ardour-0.99.3 # scons
scons: Reading SConscript files …
Package sndfile was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing sndfile.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'sndfile' found Package lrdf was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containinglrdf.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘lrdf’ found
Package raptor was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing raptor.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'raptor' found Package samplerate was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containingsamplerate.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘samplerate’ found
Package jack was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `jack.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘jack’ found
sh: gtk-config: command not found
Checking for C header file alsa/asoundlib.h… yes
system triple: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
detected DIST_TARGET = x86_64
Checking for internationalization support …
This system is not configured for internationalized applications (no xgettext command). An english-only version will be built
Checking for C header file libintl.h… yes
Checking for C header file /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Versions/A/Headers/CoreAudio.h… no
Checking for C function posix_memalign()… yes
Checking for C function getmntent()… yes
Checking for jack_client_open()…failed
Checking for jack_recompute_total_latencies()…failed
Checking for C header file wordexp.h… yes
Checking for C header file sys/vfs.h… yes
Checking for executable gtk-config …no
Cannot find the "gtk-config" command. This normally means that you either
have not installed Gtk+ 1.2, or that you have installed in a place not
mentioned in your PATH setting
Sigh…
So I am guessing this messed up something else?
any thoughts would be ace. I am noob.
simon
I have all of those packages installed, if that helps.
You might have the libraries installed, but you don’t have the development pacakges installed. They normally are named equivalently to the library packages but have -dev or -devel appended to their name.