On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 09:49 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > I tried the "./gitcompile --enable-pulseaudio" command myself, and had > this problem: > > Making all in pulse > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tanu/dev/alsa-plugins/pulse' > /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -MT ctl_pulse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ctl_pulse.Tpo -c -o ctl_pulse.lo ctl_pulse.c > libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -MT ctl_pulse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ctl_pulse.Tpo -c ctl_pulse.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/ctl_pulse.o > mv -f .deps/ctl_pulse.Tpo .deps/ctl_pulse.Plo > /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -MT pulse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/pulse.Tpo -c -o pulse.lo pulse.c > libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -MT pulse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/pulse.Tpo -c pulse.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/pulse.o > mv -f .deps/pulse.Tpo .deps/pulse.Plo > /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include/alsa -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -module -avoid-version -export-dynamic -no-undefined -o libasound_module_ctl_pulse.la -rpath /usr/lib/alsa-lib ctl_pulse.lo pulse.lo -lasound -L/usr/local/lib -lpulse -lasound > libtool: link: gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC .libs/ctl_pulse.o .libs/pulse.o -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libpulse.so -lasound -O2 -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so -o .libs/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndfile.la: No such file or directory > libtool: link: `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndfile.la' is not a valid libtool archive > make[2]: *** [libasound_module_ctl_pulse.la] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tanu/dev/alsa-plugins/pulse' > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tanu/dev/alsa-plugins' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > Debian doesn't ship libsndfile.la, so I tried installing libsndfile from > source. That didn't help at all. I eventually figured that since the > alsa build system doesn't reference libsndfile at all, libpulse must > somehow have a reference to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndfile.la > (even though my system has never had that file installed). I rebuilt > pulseaudio and installed it, and now it works (apparently because the > rebuilt version references the version of libsndfile that was built from > source, which includes libsndfile.la, instead of referencing the system > version of libsndfile). > > Does anyone know if the build system of alsa-plugins could be improved > so that it doesn't use any external .la files when linking? Update: now I'm unable to reproduce the problem, even after uninstalling the self-compiled libsndfile instance and rebuilding pulseaudio again... That means that I can't try any fixes, because there's nothing to fix. Sorry for the noise. -- Tanu