On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:25:14 +0200, Symbolic Debugger wrote: > > That's what I thought and checked, but did not see newfile, but now I do, Perhaps I checked a wrong repo. I pulled the latest repo, compiled (gitcompile) but it did not generate .so but it reports lot of .lo files. I wish not to overwrite the current libasound.so., so should it be : make install with --libdir=<my directory> to generate the .so files ? You can try to install it to a temporary directory specified via DESTDIR variable as a test. Also, the libasound.so.2.0.0 can be found under src/.libs directory after the build. You can simply copy that, too. But, for general build issues, better to ask your distro. Someone might have already a package built from the git repo, too. Takashi