[gst-devel] configure question

[Erik Walthinsen]

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> Here's what I got with today's CVS in my regular CVS build dir :
>
> checking for ALSA CFLAGS...
> checking for ALSA LDFLAGS...  -lasound -lm -ldl
> checking for libasound headers version >= 0.9.0... not present.
> configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
>
> and it ends on that note.
>
> So I suppose something changed with ALSA stuff, even though it never
> complained before and I don't use ALSA anyway.
>
> Is ALSA considered "core" (ie should I upgrade alsa without using it) or
> should the check failure be less fatal ?

The problem is that the alsasink is incompatible with alsa 0.9.0, so I
added a check that made it not compile in that case.  As soon as the
alsasink is upgraded to 0.9.x compliance (and preferrably with
back-support, somehow), we'll change that to match.

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