[alsa-devel] compile problems

[David Henderson]

On 06/27/2011 12:30 PM, David Henderson wrote:
> On 06/27/2011 12:07 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> At Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:31:18 -0400,
>> David Henderson wrote:
>>> On 06/27/2011 11:20 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>> At Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:56:37 -0400,
>>>> David Henderson wrote:
>>>>> On 06/27/2011 09:35 AM, Adrian Pardini wrote:
>>>>>> On 27/06/2011, David Henderson<dhenderson at digital-pipe.com>    
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> checking for libasound headers version>= 1.0.16... not present.
>>>>>>> configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not
>>>>>>> found.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Seeing as how this is a staging directory and not
>>>>>>> the actual place the package is being installed to, I'm having 
>>>>>>> the afore
>>>>>>> mentioned problem because the alsa-utils package is looking 
>>>>>>> under /...
>>>>>>> for the header files instead of the /opt/staging/alsa/... 
>>>>>>> directory.  Is
>>>>>>> there a compile-time parameter that I can use so that alsa-utils 
>>>>>>> looks
>>>>>>> in the staging directory for the header files - just during the 
>>>>>>> compile
>>>>>>> phase?
>>>>>> Hi Dave, try giving --with-alsa-inc-prefix=/opt/staging/alsa to the
>>>>>> configure script.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the help Adrian.  I tried passing that parameter to the
>>>>> configure script and here's the below output:
>>>>>
>>>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>>>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>>>> checking for gawk... no
>>>>> checking for mawk... mawk
>>>>> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>>>> checking whether NLS is requested... yes
>>>>> checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
>>>>> checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
>>>>> checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
>>>>> checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
>>>>> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
>>>>> checking for gcc... gcc
>>>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>>>>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>>>>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>>>>> checking for suffix of executables...
>>>>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>>>>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>>>>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>>>>> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>>>>> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
>>>>> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>>>> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>>>> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
>>>>> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
>>>>> checking for shared library run path origin... done
>>>>> checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
>>>>> checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
>>>>> checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
>>>>> checking whether to use NLS... yes
>>>>> checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
>>>>> checking for cross-compiler... gcc
>>>>> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
>>>>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
>>>>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
>>>>> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
>>>>> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
>>>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>>>> checking whether ln -s works... yes
>>>>> checking for ALSA CFLAGS...  -I/opt/staging/alsa
>>>>> checking for ALSA LDFLAGS...  -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread
>>>>> checking for libasound headers version>= 1.0.16... not present.
>>>>> configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've double checked that the header files are present:
>>>>> $ ls -1 /opt/staging/alsa/var/share/include/alsa/
>>>> Pass the root path to alsa/*.h to --with-alsa-inc-prefix option, i.e.
>>>> in your case, it's /opt/staging/alsa/var/share/include.
>>>>
>>>> But, the path is really odd and almost kidding (/share under
>>>> /var...?)  Is it really correct?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Takashi
>>> Thanks for the additional help Takashi!  I've tried that as well 
>>> without
>>> any luck - still errors out at the same place and with the same
>>> message.
>> Then you should check config.log at the place error occurred.
>> It contains more details.
>> I guess you'll have to pass also --with-alsa-prefix pointing to the
>> path where your local libasound.so.2 is placed.
>>
>>>   I know that some of the paths are non-traditional, but there
>>> were certain guidelines that had to be met with this custom distro.  As
>>> a result, some of the directories had to get moved.  That shouldn't be
>>> adding to the problem right?  Since we're telling configure exactly
>>> where to locate the files...
>> Well, it's still very strange path.  The share sub-directory
>> definitely doesn't belong under /var.  I'd understand that
>> /opt/staging/alsa is a prefix for some build-root.  But /var/share
>> is weird.  If any, it should be /usr/share.
>>
>>
>> Takashi
>
> I checked in the log file, but I didn't notice anything that gave an 
> indication as to the failure.  Is there any spot in particular to look 
> as the log just ends with "configure: exit 1", but everything above it 
> just appears to be bash-styled variable assignments.
>
> I ended up using the following configure parameters, but with the same 
> results:
>    --with-alsa-inc-prefix=/opt/staging/alsa/var/share/include/alsa 
> --with-alsa-prefix=/opt/staging/alsa/lib
> and I've confirmed that the appropriate files reside in the passed 
> directories.
>
> Obviously the traditional directory layout is /usr/share, but the 
> distro doesn't have a /usr directory.  As a result, the directories 
> that were under that parent directory had to be moved.  The chosen 
> spot for some of them was /var (although the header files could have 
> been moved to /lib/... perhaps).  At any rate, that's where the files 
> are located.
>
> Dave

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