Apologies if this should have gone to alsa-user instead, but I've just tried compiling alsa-utils-1.0.24.2 on a Debian testing amd64 system, and configure gave a list of errors related to CoreFoundation. There were several similar to this in config.log:
... configure:4589: checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue configure:4607: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation >&5 conftest.c:11:42: fatal error: CoreFoundation/CFPreferences.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. ...
I ran ./configure with default settings. Kernel is 3.2.1 compiled for k8 from kernel.org source. alsa-lib-1.0.24.1 compiled and installed sucessfully.
Possibly a stupid question, but why is it checking for CoreFoundation on a Linux system?
John