Re: libasound

["J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <fsmla xinara org>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 22:53:50 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:45:16PM -0400, Dennis Burke wrote:
> > Yesterday I tried gnumeric-1.2.0 but after upgrading libbonobo,
> > libbonoboui, and libgsf-1.8.2 configure worked but compile failed
> > because it couldn't link with libasound.la (Sorry - the exact error is
> > on another machine.) To my knowledge I have never used or needed this
> > library.  I gather this may be used with the ALSA sound system.

Indeed.

> > I am using Slackware current (9.0+) and Linux kernel 2.4.22.  
> >
> > What should I do here?
>
> I don't have access to a slackware testing environment.  My first
> guess would be to grep through <prefix>/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc to see if
> there are any mentions of libasound.  Something somewhere is tacking
> it, nothing in libgsf or gnumeric uses that directly in any way.

gnumeric uses the GNOME core libraries, which depend on EsounD (the
Enlightened Sound Daemon) to handle sound. EsounD supports various sound
infrastructures, including OSS (the one that's standard in Linux 2.4) and
ALSA.

It may well be that Dennis has a version of EsounD with ALSA support
installed and that he needs to have the ALSA development libraries installed
in order to compile applications that use EsounD.

HTH,
Ray
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