[alsa-devel] Using aplay and arecord on an ARM

[Nobin Mathew]

Yes, but take care of permissions. you need root permissions in ARM
root file system.

On 6/20/07, Paul Kavan <pkavan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Nobin Mathew <nobin.mathew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Build alsa-lib and alsa-utils with prefix option
> >
> > --prefix=/usr
> >
> > while installing give the destination directory
> >
> > make install DESTDIR=$MYINSTALLDIR
> >
> > Then copy the installed executables to ARM root file sytem
> >
> > This should solve the issue.
> >
> > On 6/20/07, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > > At Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:31:31 -0400,
> > > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 6/19/07, Paul Kavan < pkavan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > it should not be looking in this directory, but rather in
> > > > > "usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf". Might be why it cannot find the
> alsa.conf
> > > >
> > > > I struggled with the exact same problem about a year ago, I don't
> > > > remember the solution but it's in the list archives.
> > >
> > > The problem is likely you pass --prefix=$MYROOT/usr or so.
> > > The prefix option should be unchanged.
> > >
> > > Anyway, alsa-lib-1.0.14a has extra configure options,
> > > --with-configdir and --with-plugindir, with which you can specify the
> > > exact paths, independent from $prefix.
> > >
> > >
> > > Takashi
>
> Thanks Takashi and  Mathew. I just want to make sure I am clear on this. I
> create my embedded rfs for an ARM9 processor on my host machine. The path to
> the rfs is:
>
> $HOME/buildroot/build_arm/root/...
>
> So, you are saying that when I configure alsa-libs, I should be using:
>
>  CC=arm-linux-gcc ./configure --target=arm-linux --with-versioned=no
> --prefix=/usr
>
> and then
>
> make install DESTDIR=$HOME/buildroot/build_arm/root
>
> Is this correct? I just want to make sure the libs will get into my target's
> rfs that way.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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