Re: [mpg123-devel] Building mpg123 under Ubuntu

[JonY <jo...@us...>]

On 7/10/2011 00:21, Dave Rensberger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build mpg123-1.13.3 under Ubuntu 11.04.    Ubuntu 11.04 appears to have ALSA support, but not OSS (I'm making this assumption, because there's no /dev/dsp, but there are files in /dev/snd/... I'm not actually familiar enough with Ubuntu yet to know how to find its kernel configuration).  
> 
> When I do a plain ./configure, it seems to autodetect OSS, which makes mpg123 fail at runtime because it can't find the right device file.   If I try to force it to build with ALSA, using "./configure --with-audio=alsa", it fails the configuration process with this:
> 
>   Limiting outputs to build according to your preference: alsa dummy
>   checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>   checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>   checking for snd_pcm_open in -lasound... no
>   checking if you are too dumbing dumb for the dummy... no
>   configure: error: One/some of your requested audio modules failed the test!
> 
> 
> What gives?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Dave
> 

Hi,

have you installed the corresponding devel packages from apt?