building aplay / arecord

[ael]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 06:04:26PM -0700, David Jaffe wrote:
> Newbie question...
> 
> I downloaded the alsa-utils source and it says to run ./configure.  But no
> such file exists.  And if I go to aplay and type “make aplay” it can’t find
> a file called “aconfig.h”, which is presumably written by
> ./configure.  What am I missing?

I think that you need to run autoconf on the configure.ac file which
you should have: it is there in the git directory.

Perhaps read 
 man autoconf ?

The INSTALL file does indeed say run ./configure without explaining that
you need autoconf if ./configure is not present.

ael