Thomas Giesel wrote: > > I am trying to cross-compile the alsa-lib. I want to do it in a clean > "configure - make - make install" way. It should be installed to > "/somewhere/initrd/usr" on my host, which will appear at "/usr" on my > target later. > > When I use prefix=/somewhere/initrd/usr it installs there, that's > exactly what I want. But for example it tries to open > "/somewhere/initrd/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf" on my target instead of > ommiting "/somwhere/initrd". (Which leads to confusing error messages > when starting programs like aplay later). This behaviour is probably > wanted in many cases, but not in this use case. The only way I found > was not to use the prefix and to compile the files manually to my initrd. > > Is there a clean way to do what I mean? > Yes. "prefix" is used to indicate where you want things to be finally installed. So, for example, one normally does "./configure --prefix /usr" to have everything normally live under /usr. What you want, however, is to install into /somewhere/initrd -- that's normally done when you do the make install and you usually do "make DESTDIR=/somewhere/initrd" install and everything will be installed there. I have to admit that it's quite a long time since I last compiled the alsa-libs so it might not be DESTDIR, but if in doubt look at the install targets in the various Makefiles generated by ./configure. Also, if you're not running as root -- and you shouldn't be -- it won't hurt to just try it. jch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
