[alsa-devel] additional problem

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:26:05 -0400,
David Henderson wrote:
> 
> On 07/01/2011 02:41 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:15:41 -0400,
> > David Henderson wrote:
> >> On 06/29/2011 09:57 AM, David Henderson wrote:
> >>> Hi gang!  I've successfully been able to compile the alsa-utils
> >>> package with the
> >>> "--with-alsa-inc-prefix=/opt/staging/alsa/var/share/include
> >>> --with-alsa-prefix=/opt/staging/alsa/lib", but the problem I'm having
> >>> now is that the compiled binaries are looking for those directories
> >>> during run-time and not just compile-time.  Does anyone have any
> >>> thoughts on using those directories for package creation, but that the
> >>> software doesn't use the '/opt/staging/alsa' prefix during run-time?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Dave
> >> bump for help
> > It works usually as is.  Check once via ldd whether the binary is
> > really linked with that fixed path.  You may hit a problem when using
> > libtool with *.la files, for example.
> >
> >
> > Takashi
> 
> Thanks for the continued help Takashi.  I've performed the requested 
> steps, but all referenced libs are correct (e.g. /lib/... and not 
> /opt/staging/alsa/lib/...).  Any other thoughts?

Check ldd output of the binary.  If it contains the /opt/ path, it
means that the path is set statically into the binary.  The old
libtool had a related problem, IIRC.

Other than that, rather ask your distro.  It's really distro-specific.


Takashi