On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Alan Robertson wrote:
> Allrighty sound fans,
>
> Here's the problem:
> I've got a project requirement here at work for a voice-over-IP application.
> The folks want to have real time chatter as they conduct a demo, so they need
> some means of going full-duplex. As we all know, the OSS/Free stuff that's in
> the kernel just doesn't get it done.
>
> My first thought was to get the full blown OSS drivers from 4Front, but they
> didn't seem to work for me (ESS 1869, onboard in Compaq Deskpros), even though
> they claimed to have support.
>
> That left me looking at ALSA. I successfully compiled the alsa driver, and the
> alsa libs... Alsa-utils crapped out on me when I ran the configure script.
> The error I get is:
>
> ---Paste---
> checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create
>executables.
> ---End Paste---
>
> The ALSA documentation says that if you get this cryptic error, check to see
> that you have the libstdc++-devel package installed. First time through, I
> didn't, so I installed it and tried it again. I am still getting the same
> error. Has anyone managed to get ALSA compiled and working on their system?
> What is the secret?
Look at the bottom of config.log whats it say?
