arts has support for jack but the move from autoconf to cmake dropped the option.

See the configure script of arts-1.5.9:

JACK_CFLAGS
JACK_LIBADD
JACK_LDFLAGS

...

  --with-jack             enable support for Jack [default=check]

...

# Check whether --with-jack was given.
if test "${with_jack+set}" = set; then
  withval=$with_jack;
else
  with_jack=check
fi


if test "x$with_jack" != xno; then
  { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for Jack Audio Connection Kit" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking for Jack Audio Connection Kit... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
  if $PKG_CONFIG --atleast-version 0.90 jack >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
    JACK_CFLAGS="`$PKG_CONFIG --cflags jack`"
    JACK_LIBADD="`$PKG_CONFIG --libs-only-l jack`"
    JACK_LDFLAGS="`$PKG_CONFIG --libs-only-L jack`"
    { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6; }

cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
#define HAVE_LIBJACK 1
_ACEOF

  else
    { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: not installed" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}not installed" >&6; }
  fi




  if test "x$with_jack" != xcheck && test -z "$JACK_LIBADD"; then
    { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: --with-jack was given, but test for Jack failed
See \`config.log' for more details." >&5
echo "$as_me: error: --with-jack was given, but test for Jack failed
See \`config.log' for more details." >&2;}
   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
  fi
fi

...

JACK_CFLAGS!$JACK_CFLAGS$ac_delim
JACK_LIBADD!$JACK_LIBADD$ac_delim
JACK_LDFLAGS!$JACK_LDFLAGS$ac_delim