[alsa-devel] alsa-lib-1.0.18 doesn't build with option '--with-softfloat'

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:34:27 +0000,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:13:22PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:18:42AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > > OpenEmbedded has been carrying the following patch for a while,
> > > cooindcidentally I was actually looking at their ALSA packaging last
> > > night and thinking about pushing this to you - it forces liking with
> > > libm which is more important when using softfloat.
> 
> > Well, when softfloat option is chosen, basically alsa-lib should be
> > built without floating operations, thus libm shouldn't be needed.  (So
> > in that sense, the option is named wrongly...)
> 
> Yeah, looking at the code I had kind of suspected that or I'd have
> pushed it last night.  It's probably worth renaming the option to
> "float" or something to reduce confusion?

Yep, e.g. --disable-float would be more intuitive.


Takashi