[alsa-devel] aplay appication failed to open the alsa device

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:19:47 +0530,
Tharmarajan G wrote:
> 
> Hi Clemens,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Still the problem is not solved.
> 
> I have downloaded the followings packages from the site
> www.alsa-project.org   and built them for arm.
> 
> 1. alsa-lib-1.0.14
> 
> 2. alsa-utils-1.0.14
> 
> 
> Configuring and Building instructions
> 
> pwd
> 
> /home/tharma/alsa-packages
> 
> cd alsa-lib-1.0.14
> 
> ./configure --host=arm-linux --prefix=$PWD/install
> CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-

Changing prefix in configure to a non-common path is wrong in general.
This will involve other values, especially in the case of ALSA, the
path compiled into the binary such as config file path is changed
too.

For specifying the installation root, pass via $DESTDIR at make
install.


Takashi