forgive the top post; (supposedly IT is gonna turn on IMAP on the exchange server for YT RSN and then i can write rfc compliant email) i followed tiwai's recommendation and corrected my configure arguments to disable shared and enable static. once i correctly placed the conf files on the target boxes (rh62, gentoo) i was able to have success with a statically linked app on the gentoo box; however i had a lot of grief on rh62! on rh62, i would get a segfault parsing the pcm.conf file. however, once i limited my static linking to libasound only instead of libasound, libc, libpthread and libdl i was able to have success on rh62 as well. tnx for your help IWAI-san! johnu -----Original Message----- From: alsa-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of John Utz Sent: Wed 3/28/2007 10:15 AM To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: is statically linking libasound supported? because if i do it, i cant open the device! -----Original Message----- From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai@xxxxxxx] > You cannot build both *.a and *.so _at the same time_ for alsa-lib. > partly because of bad behavior of libtool, partly because of the > design of alsa-lib (embedded plugins in static lib). > > Simply build twice, once for a shared lib and once for a static lib. > > > > I got the libasound.a just find and it linked the app and the app *runs*, it just > > doesnt find the device! > > The libasound.a is broken. * Well, I meant the libasound.a you made is broken. * When you build libasound.a without --disable-shared, it passes -DPIC * and it's built with assumption of shared library use. AHH! thankyou for explaining that! i am greatful for the increase in my understanding of library compilation 'dynamics' (for want of a better term :-) ) tnx for the 'schoolin'' i'll report back on my outcome. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
