If you’re compiling PulseAudio, at least on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 64-bit, you must use the –fstrans=no switch for it to compile successfully. If you don’t, ranlib will complain profusely and the compile will fail. So, your make would look like this:

make install --fstrans=no

I really have no idea why you have to do this, and I mostly don’t care. I found it in some newsgroup post in reference to the same error, but for a completely different, unrelated program. I just know that without that switch, it fails, and with it, it works perfectly. It only seems to effect PA, as other programs compile fine.

Just putting this up here because it’s not documented anywhere on the Internet; now it is.

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