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

[guenter geiger]

Hmm,

If its only sox that causes problems, I might just drop ALSA support.
It is true that sox uses the kernel interface to ALSA which is not
stable. The OSS emulation mode works perfectly.

Guenter

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > 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>.
> ..
> > 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.
>
> Guenter, as maintainer of sox, can you please look at #274151
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> Martin Michlmayr
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