From: James Shatto <wwwshad...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] First post Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:36:59 -0500
> A) If you want to overwrite your existing distro's versions, you > probably want the --prefix=/usr option on your ./configure commands. > If not, be sure to change your $PATH to look at /usr/local FIRST. > > B) Compile alsa-lib first, alsa-driver second. Most compile options > only need --prefix=/usr if you want to override the default of > /usr/local. But alsa-driver requires extra parms depending on what > you want. Some packages are only tool sets, so make -f Makefile? And > use them from where you made them, or copy/move them to more common > $PATH's. > > C) You might have versioning conflicts depending on what you're trying > to mix and match. libc and other things might not work well together > unless you're running the latest and greatest of every component. And > even that is problematic some of the time. > > D) unless you have a lot of time to waste, or just need the learning, > I'd recommend going with existing distros. There's enough of them > that one might suit your current needs. www.distrowatch.com I suggested something intermediary : lfs or gentoo which are easily customizable. Pierre > > HTH, > - James > > > > On 6/19/11, David Henderson <dhender...@digital-pipe.com> wrote: >> Thanks for the reply Pierre. I checked into the blfs book, but it >> merely says "these five chapters will cover alsa" and then gives you a >> basic "type configure && make". This is obviously not going to answer >> the questions below. :) Any other thoughts? >> >> Dave >> >> >> On 06/19/2011 11:22 PM, Pierre Lorenzon wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> It looks like to me such questions are well answered in the >>> blfs book. I personnaly think that the latter is a very good >>> tool to build his own custom distro. >>> >>> Bests >>> >>> Pierre >>> >>> >>> From: David Henderson<dhender...@digital-pipe.com> >>> Subject: [Alsa-user] First post >>> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:41:08 -0400 >>> >>>> Hi everyone! I'm currently expanding my knowledge of GNU/Linux to >>>> include building packages from scratch towards an overall goal of a >>>> custom distro. So far, I have a nice base for a command line OS, but >>>> want to expand into the multimedia aspect. Alsa was my first (only?) >>>> choice for the audio portion, but I'm running into problems. The alsa >>>> site is somewhat overwhelming to newbies and is easy to get lost. I >>>> have a few questions below from which I hope I can find help. All >>>> contributions are greatly appreciated. :) >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>>> 1) Currently I have downloaded alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils >>>> packages. Is there an order in which these packages need to be compiled >>>> and installed? >>>> >>>> 2) I'm currently running the relatively new Linux kernel 2.6.33 so do I >>>> need the alsa-driver package? >>>> >>>> 3) I've been able to successfully compile the alsa-lib package and >>>> install it in the custom distro. When I try to compile the alsa-utils >>>> package, I constantly get the error: >>>> >>>> checking for libasound headers version>= 1.0.16... not present. >>>> configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found. >>>> >>>> I'm actually using an existing Kubuntu installation to build the >>>> packages for my custom distro. As a result, after I compiled the newer >>>> alsa-lib, I didn't install the package into the Kubuntu OS, but rather a >>>> staging directory (/opt/staging/alsa). I'm sure the reason this is >>>> failing is because it's probably looking for /usr/lib/... or some other >>>> default location. How do I tell the configure script for the alsa-utils >>>> to look in the staging directory for the header files it needs? >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content >>>> authoring tool. 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