[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#368260: alsa-lib: Fails to build from source (i386)

[csj]

Package: alsa-lib
Severity: serious
Justification: no longer builds from source

The building of the alsa-lib source package aborts with the following
error:

# BEGIN EXTRACT OF BUILD LOG (tail -n20 alsa-lib*build)
make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/bibuild/src'
test -z "/usr/lib" || mkdir -p -- "/mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/debian/bitmp/usr/lib"
 /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c  'libasound.la' '/mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/debian/bitmp/usr/lib/libasound.la'
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libasound.2.0.0 /mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/debian/bitmp/usr/lib/libasound.2.0.0
(cd /mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/debian/bitmp/usr/lib && rm -f libasound.2 && ln -s libasound.2.0.0 libasound.2)
(cd /mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/debian/bitmp/usr/lib && rm -f libasound && ln -s libasound.2.0.0 libasound)
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libasound.lai /mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/debian/bitmp/usr/lib/libasound.la
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libasound.a /mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/debian/bitmp/usr/lib/libasound.a
chmod 644 /mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/debian/bitmp/usr/lib/libasound.a
ranlib /mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/debian/bitmp/usr/lib/libasound.a
libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/bibuild/src'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/bibuild/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/build/alsa-lib-1.0.11/bibuild/src'
mkdir -p debian/lib64asound2/usr/lib64
cp -a debian/bitmp/usr/lib/libasound.so.* \
	    debian/lib64asound2/usr/lib64/
cp: cannot stat `debian/bitmp/usr/lib/libasound.so.*': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-arch] Error 1
# END EXTRACT OF BUILD LOG 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.16-k7r1-custom
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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