[Pkg-alsa-devel] undefined versioned symbol name snd_pcm_hw_params_get_buffer_size_max

[Stephen Gaito]

Hello,

I have found that if I try to statically link libasound.a into 
HelixPlayer's ALSA driver I get the ld error:

undefined versioned symbol name 
snd_pcm_hw_params_get_buffer_size_max@ALSA0.9

Which when I look at the source code for alsa-lib (1.0.5 taken from the 
debian site), this method has multiple versions for symbolic linking. 

I noticed on the web the following two references:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/multimedia/alsa-lib.html

and

http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/~hbwang/stargate/audio/alsa-compile.txt

They both suggest that the libasound.a static library should be compiled 
from an alsa-lib package which has been configured with 
--enable-static=yes and --enable-shared=no.  Upon doing this on my 
machine I found this linkage error diasappeared since the multiple 
versions were no longer found in the libasound.a library.

I noticed at least one other person on the web who has had the same 
problem compiling a different package (though I don't know if they were 
using debian's libasound2-dev package).
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2004-June/022857.html

I do not know if this is a bug in the libasound2-dev package or a 
misunderstanding on my part... I would love your comments before I 
formally raise this issue as a bug.

Cheers!

Stephen Gaito