[alsa-devel] [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#430833: libasound2: PCM plugin `lfloat' not built

[Elimar Riesebieter]

forwarded 430833 alsa-devel at alsa-project.org

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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 the mental interface of
Mark Wooding told:

> Package: libasound2
> Version: 1.0.14a-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> The PCM plugin `lfloat' isn't compiled into libasound.  In particular,
> this prevents the `plug' plugin from doing linear<->float conversion,
> and in turn this means that hardly any ALSA clients can use the JACK
> plugin from libasound2-plugins, because JACK uses FLOAT_LE format
> throughout.
> 
> The reason for this is quite simple: the configure script is broken!  In
> particular, the sense of the `softfloat' check used to decide whether to
> disable the plugin is wrong!  (That's aside from the question of whether
> it's sensible to fail to build the thing just because it might be slow.)
> 

We should solve this in general. It's not a Debian specific wish so
forwarded upstream.

> 
> Index: alsa-lib-1.0.14a/configure.in
> ===================================================================
> --- alsa-lib-1.0.14a.orig/configure.in  2007-06-27 16:24:58.000000000
> +0100
> +++ alsa-lib-1.0.14a/configure.in       2007-06-27 16:25:19.000000000
> +0100
> @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
>    build_pcm_share="no"
>  fi
>  
> -if test "$softfloat" != "yes"; then
> +if test "$softfloat" = "yes"; then
>    build_pcm_lfloat="no"
>  fi
>  
> Index: alsa-lib-1.0.14a/configure
> ===================================================================
> --- alsa-lib-1.0.14a.orig/configure     2007-06-27 16:25:23.000000000
> +0100
> +++ alsa-lib-1.0.14a/configure  2007-06-27 16:25:38.000000000 +0100
> @@ -20946,7 +20946,7 @@
>    build_pcm_share="no"
>  fi
>  
> -if test "$softfloat" != "yes"; then
> +if test "$softfloat" = "yes"; then
>    build_pcm_lfloat="no"
>  fi
>  
> 

Elimar


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