Re: [Alsa-user] make alsa-lib/alsa-oss multilib-friendly

[Tomas C. <to...@db...>]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 17:21 +0000, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
>> It's a real pain to compile those two packages for 32bit in a 64bit 
>> environment. I needed to recompile both packages because they'd break 
>> TeamSpeak (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_and_TeamSpeak_on_amd64) and 
>> I can't get the newest versions (1.0.11-rc2) of both packages to 
>> compile. Also, different versions are incompatible so whenever I upgrade 
>> the 64bit version it most likely will break my 32bit applications.
>> The best solution would be to have multilib support like in glibc.
>>
>> Please fix this.
> 
> Would this benefit any non-proprietary applications?  If not, I doubt
> anyone is very interested in fixing it.  Seems like it would be easier
> for TeamSpeak to release a 64 bit build.
> 

mplayer, many codecs are not available for free, mplayer uses windows 
dlls to decode such streams, and many people use a 32bit version of 
mplayer because there aren't any 64bit libs for windows codecs..