Ok, here are a few more linux inquiries for you about weird things nobody uses.
I am compiling something, I am new to it and I want to get a certain effect with a certain -tune parameter in some environment variables 'FLAGS' & 'CPFLAGS'. Sounds good to me, that's all the document says basically. What are environment variables, or more importantly where are they? I'm assuming it's a set of lines in the 'configure' file where I have to put that in?
Here's a bonus question about Timidity, the software midi player. How can I really unload the memory between each file. The -U tag seems to have limited effects. With the huge soundfont that I use, after a few files, the whole thing goes quiet.