More stupid questions anyone?

[GenuineAdvantage]

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.

[piratePenguin]

When you're running make, you can change the enviornmental variables by saying e.g. 'CFLAGS=-g make', that'll run make with the CFLAGS enviornmental variable set to '-g'.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Try "man timidity" or "man xmms-timidity" or whatever the program's name is ... it doesn't look like there is more documentation on it than that, try googling it, although I didn't find too much. It could be a memory leak.

[GenuineAdvantage]

Hm. Thanks for the variables info, I never would have guess that, but let's skip the complaining.

About timidity, it's just a bug I think. I go overboard with the size of the soundfonts. I joined everything I had from windows into 300MB or so. Anyways, I tried it all, haven't found a fix. Oh well.