[gst-devel] Problem with alsa.m4

[Erik Walthinsen]

I noticed that alsa.m4 (as of Nov 20, 2000 CVS), will put the ALSA_LIBS
and ALSA_CFLAGS contents into the main LIBS and CFLAGS unconditionally,
which is quite different than any other package out there.  I consider
this to be a problem, because I need to be able to choose whether to link
against libasound on a .so-by-.so basis, since I have a core library with
no major dependencies and an ALSA plugin to do all the work.

The usual way is to set just the ALSA_* vars, and let the application's
configure.in decide where/when to add them to the LIBS and CFLAGS.  As it
is, I'm going to have to do the ac_save_* trick around the ALSA check.

I'm not sure what the state of HEAD is, but from the comments it looks
like it is still the same way.  However, I can't check because the wbcvs
interface is broken (no perms to write history).

TIA,
   Omega

      Erik Walthinsen <omega at temple-baptist.com> - System Administrator
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