[alsa-devel] builidng alsa-utils

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:16:44PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Vinod Koul wrote:
> > I was trying to build alsa-utils (lib built fine) but it seems stuck on
> > libpanelw.
> > ...
> > checking for ncursesw5-config... yes
> > checking for curses library... ncursesw
> > checking for curses header name... <ncurses.h>
> > checking for curses compiler flags... -I/usr/include/ncursesw
> > checking for curses NLS support... yes
> > ...
> > checking for new_panel in -lpanelw... no
> > configure: error: panelw library not found
> >
> > And I have panelw
> >
> > $ locate libpanelw
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw.so.5
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw.so.5.9
> >
> > And created symbolic link
> >
> > $ ll /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    40 Jan 19 15:14 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw.so -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpanelw.so.5
> >
> > Any reasons this would happen?
> 
> So it works now?  That missing link would appear to be a bug of your
> distribution's package.

Nope even adding this link does not make it work :(

I am on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and latest greatest packages and was trying to build
latest lib and utils from git

> > Btw if it do
> > ./gitcompile --with-curses=ncurses --disable-xmlto
> > it works fine
> 
> This does not uses libpanelw but libpanel (which apparently exists).
> (w = wide-character support for non-ASCII locales)

Thanks for explanation, this is the only way it worked for me
-- 
~Vinod