Good news: alsa-lib has built nicely on all arches except amd64. 1.0.9 : alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc 1.0.10rc*: arm i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc 1.0.10 : alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc -- Thomas Hood