If you compile something yourself and it breaks, it's not our problem! The problem in question here is fixed by one of the patches (in debian /50_register-use.patch), so compiling from just the .orig.tar.gz is going to render a broken binary.
** Changed in: praat (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Rejected -- praat won't run when compiled from its source package https://launchpad.net/bugs/65494 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs