On 14 May 2013 08:34,  <p...@pjb.com.au> wrote:
> Greetings folks,
>
> I've just got a new midialsa working to fix a bug introduced
> in alsa-lib 1.0.24 ... there's just one small quirk that I
> haven't met before:
>   Error: Could not find expected file libasound.a, or libasound.so,
>   or libasound.so.* for ALSA -- you may have to install ALSA in your
>   system and/or pass ALSA_DIR or ALSA_LIBDIR to the luarocks command.
>   Example: luarocks install midialsa ALSA_DIR=/usr/local
>
> so after
>   find /usr/lib -name 'libasound.*' -print
> I tried
>   luarocks install \
>     http://www.pjb.com.au/comp/lua/midialsa-1.18-0.rockspec \
>     ALSA_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/
> and that worked fine :-)
>
> I have just upgraded from debian squeeze to wheezy;
> has that messed something up ?

It's just that the default lookup directories in LuaRocks are not
configured to the Debian paths (and use traditional Unix dirs, such as
/usr/lib). There have been discussions here on how to improve
detection. I'm looking into this.

So, it's not really a rockspec issue -- your rockspec should be fine
for inclusion.

-- Hisham
http://hisham.hm/

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