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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?
> 
> 
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