Re: [Alsa-user] 64 bit Compilation/Installation problem

[Sergei S. <ste...@li...>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:29:11 -0700
Roger Pryor <rp...@in...> wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> I seem to have a problem with Alsa 1.0.16 when compiling.
> 
> My system is: an Open SUSE 10.2 running on a Intel DP965LT mobo, with an
> Intel Core2 Duo E6420 processor.  2 G Ram.  Intel HDA sound card, which
> has given me lot of problems.
> 
> OpenSUSE 10.2 comes with Alsa 10.0.14a, which does not seem to properly
> support the Intel HDA chipset.  So, I wanted to upgrade to Alsa 1.0.16.  I
> downloaded all available packages from the Alsa site, built and installed
> the driver (using --with-suse=yes), ran alsaconf and rebooted.  So far so
> good. I built the library, and installed that.  I try to build the utils,
> but it fails with the error "no TLV support in alsa-lib".  I check the date
> on /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0, only to find it was NOT updated with the
> libray installation, yet the version in /usr/lib was updated.  Temporarily
> symlinking libasound.2.0.0 in /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib allows the
> compilation of alsa-utils to proceed and complete without error

The symlinking is senseless in this case - /usr/lib64 is meant to be populated
by 64 bit .so files while /usr/lib by 32 bit ones.

Applications complain because they encounter wrong (64 <-> 32) files.

The rest will hopefully be addressed by ALSA developers.

Regards,
  Sergei.