Hi, It looks like to me such questions are well answered in the blfs book. I personnaly think that the latter is a very good tool to build his own custom distro. Bests Pierre From: David Henderson <dhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: First post Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:41:08 -0400 > Hi everyone! I'm currently expanding my knowledge of GNU/Linux to > include building packages from scratch towards an overall goal of a > custom distro. So far, I have a nice base for a command line OS, but > want to expand into the multimedia aspect. Alsa was my first (only?) > choice for the audio portion, but I'm running into problems. The alsa > site is somewhat overwhelming to newbies and is easy to get lost. I > have a few questions below from which I hope I can find help. All > contributions are greatly appreciated. :) > > Thanks, > Dave > > > 1) Currently I have downloaded alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils > packages. Is there an order in which these packages need to be compiled > and installed? > > 2) I'm currently running the relatively new Linux kernel 2.6.33 so do I > need the alsa-driver package? > > 3) I've been able to successfully compile the alsa-lib package and > install it in the custom distro. When I try to compile the alsa-utils > package, I constantly get the error: > > checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.16... not present. > configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found. > > I'm actually using an existing Kubuntu installation to build the > packages for my custom distro. As a result, after I compiled the newer > alsa-lib, I didn't install the package into the Kubuntu OS, but rather a > staging directory (/opt/staging/alsa). I'm sure the reason this is > failing is because it's probably looking for /usr/lib/... or some other > default location. How do I tell the configure script for the alsa-utils > to look in the staging directory for the header files it needs? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user