[PD] 0.37 ALSA [WAS: PD Knoppix]

[derek holzer]

Wow! Am I glad to get to the bottom of this! Maybe thats why the 
USE="alsa" flag breaks the Gentoo ebuild? Anyway, I am happy that it 
wasn't just me. Funny that it floated around for so long without anyone 
saying much...

d.


Miller Puckette wrote:
> 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...



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