I just thought I should create an entry to let everybody know that my previos post Compiling Firefly Media Server under Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) also applies to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).
I have been running the Firefly Media Server (mt-daapd) for sometime now. I initially installed the version that is supplied in the Ubuntu universe repository which is currently version 0.9-svn-1586.
Recently I purchased a Pinnacle Soundbridge (Roku Soundbridge outside of the UK) and wanting to be bleeding edge I check out the Firefly Media Server website and discovered that the latest nightly build is version 0.9-svn-1696. According to the descriptions of the various releases this had several bugs fixed, including a major memory leak. The author kindly produced deb packages for most versions of Ubuntu except for Gutsy, so I decided to see if I could compile from source and get the latest up and running. Not being a Linux expert I did some research and did not find a single guide that was 100% correct, so I have hopefully captured all the commands that I used to get this up and running. I hope this is sufficient information for those like me who are unfamiliar with compiling from source.