[PD] 0.37 ALSA [WAS: PD Knoppix]

Miller Puckette mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Thu Mar 11 17:25:45 CET 2004


Oops... I'll fix this ... obviously I had never thought to test it...

cheers
Miller

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:14:34PM +0100, guenter geiger wrote:
> 
> 
> The confusion arises because of the "--enable-alsa" flag, which is
> according to ./configure --help not supported, but, actually disables
> alsa. This is a bug in configure.in, where the line:
> 
> AC_ARG_ENABLE(alsa,    [  --disable-alsa          disable ALSA],
>     alsa=yes)
> 
> should be:
> 
> AC_ARG_ENABLE(alsa,    [  --disable-alsa          disable ALSA],
>     alsa=$enableval)
> 
> This way --disable-alsa and --enable-alsa work correctly. Default is still
> to enable the ALSA support. If the compiler can't find your ALSA libraries
> ./configure output will tell you.
> 
> Guenter
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, I'm running alsa with no trouble here in RedHat land.  ./configure
> > finds alsa automatically.  (If it doesn't, the media menu won't show it.)
> > So perhaps this is some new way of configuring alsa that I don't know about?
> >
> > You aren't running a 2.6 kernel by any chance, are you?  Alsa might work
> > differently there than in 2.4...  in which case I'll have to load 2.6 and
> > try it out here.
> >
> > cheers
> > Miller
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 01:11:51AM +0100, derek holzer wrote:
> > > Hi Frank,
> > >
> > > Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > > >But Pd does officially support ALSA as well as Jack.
> > >
> > > Then why does the "media" menu of PD 0.37 only show OSS and Jack? And
> > > why must I use OSS emulation to get PD running without Jack? And why do
> > > my compiles fail why I try to use the defunct "--enable-alsa" flag?***
> > >
> > > I think the "official" support died after 0.36. Or am I horribly,
> > > terribly, delusionally mistaken?
> > >
> > > ;-)
> > > d.
> > >
> > >
> > > *** ok, to be totally honest, I am actually using Gentoo ebuilds, which
> > > fail to compile with the USE="alsa" flag enabled. I know it's not
> > > *exactly* the same thing, but still close...
> > >
> > > --
> > > derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
> > > ---Oblique Strategy # 55:
> > > "Do the last thing first"
> > >
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