[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#274151: broken header sound/asound.h: causes other packages to FTBFS

[Steve Kowalik]

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:50:06 +0200, Thomas Hood uttered
> It looks like sox is using alsa kernel headers directly, which seems bad
> to me. User space apps should be using alsa-lib. I made this compile
> correctly using <alsa/asoundlib.h>.
> 
> Thomas and I are even wondering if we should drop alsa-headers entirely,
> as it's possible its not even needed anymore...
> 
> Please test a compile using that include (I had to hack around
> configure) and tell us if the play binary actually works. It did for me.
> 
libasound2-dev depends on alsa-headers.

Other than that, I think it can jump ship.

-- 
					Steve
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