[pulseaudio-discuss] asoundrc, configure one virtual device for both input and output

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 09:49 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> I tried the "./gitcompile --enable-pulseaudio" command myself, and had
> this problem:
> 
> Making all in pulse
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tanu/dev/alsa-plugins/pulse'
> /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..    -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa    -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include   -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -MT ctl_pulse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ctl_pulse.Tpo -c -o ctl_pulse.lo ctl_pulse.c
> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -MT ctl_pulse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ctl_pulse.Tpo -c ctl_pulse.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/ctl_pulse.o
> mv -f .deps/ctl_pulse.Tpo .deps/ctl_pulse.Plo
> /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..    -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa    -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include   -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -MT pulse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/pulse.Tpo -c -o pulse.lo pulse.c
> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -MT pulse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/pulse.Tpo -c pulse.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/pulse.o
> mv -f .deps/pulse.Tpo .deps/pulse.Plo
> /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa    -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include   -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -module -avoid-version -export-dynamic -no-undefined   -o libasound_module_ctl_pulse.la -rpath /usr/lib/alsa-lib ctl_pulse.lo pulse.lo -lasound    -L/usr/local/lib -lpulse   -lasound 
> libtool: link: gcc -shared  -fPIC -DPIC  .libs/ctl_pulse.o .libs/pulse.o   -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libpulse.so -lasound  -O2   -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so -o .libs/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
> /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndfile.la: No such file or directory
> libtool: link: `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndfile.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> make[2]: *** [libasound_module_ctl_pulse.la] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tanu/dev/alsa-plugins/pulse'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tanu/dev/alsa-plugins'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Debian doesn't ship libsndfile.la, so I tried installing libsndfile from
> source. That didn't help at all. I eventually figured that since the
> alsa build system doesn't reference libsndfile at all, libpulse must
> somehow have a reference to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndfile.la
> (even though my system has never had that file installed). I rebuilt
> pulseaudio and installed it, and now it works (apparently because the
> rebuilt version references the version of libsndfile that was built from
> source, which includes libsndfile.la, instead of referencing the system
> version of libsndfile).
> 
> Does anyone know if the build system of alsa-plugins could be improved
> so that it doesn't use any external .la files when linking?

Update: now I'm unable to reproduce the problem, even after uninstalling
the self-compiled libsndfile instance and rebuilding pulseaudio again...
That means that I can't try any fixes, because there's nothing to fix.
Sorry for the noise.

-- 
Tanu