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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:16:00 +0200,
Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> forwarded 430833 alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> 
> -- 
> 
> 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.

Yep, now committed to ALSA HG tree.

Thanks!


Takashi