Re: gnome-media/gmix fails to link

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa gmx net>]

jgotts linuxsavvy com writes:

> In message <shg0idi7tr fsf tux gnu franken de>, Karl Eichwalder writes:
> 
> >On SuSE Linux 7.0 gmix from the CVS fails to link:
> 
> >gmix.o: In function `element_cb':
> >gmix.o(.text+0x3e): undefined reference to `snd_mixer_element_has_info'
> >gmix.o(.text+0x7c): undefined reference to `snd_mixer_element_info_build'
> >gmix.o(.text+0x8f): undefined reference to `snd_strerror'
> >gmix.o(.text+0xca): undefined reference to `snd_mixer_element_build'
> >gmix.o(.text+0xdd): undefined reference to `snd_strerror'
> >gmix.o(.text+0x11b): undefined reference to `snd_mixer_element_free'
> 
> gnome-media finds ALSA but then doesn't link with -lesound, where these symbols
> can be found.  ./configure --disable-alsa has no effect, though it should
> #undef ALSA.

To make this work I can offer the following patch:

--- gnome-media-1.2.0cvs/configure.in.~1~	Sun Jan 21 08:30:28 2001
+++ gnome-media-1.2.0cvs/configure.in	Mon Jan 22 21:02:43 2001
@@ -72,9 +72,13 @@
 PROGRAMS_GMIX=""
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(soundcard.h linux/soundcard.h sys/soundcard.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(machine/soundcard.h sys/asoundlib.h)
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(alsa, [  --disable-alsa          Don't use ALSA], alsa=no,alsa=yes)
 if test "${ac_cv_header_sys_asoundlib_h}" = "yes"; then
     PROGRAMS_GMIX=gmix
-    AC_DEFINE(ALSA)
+    if test "x${alsa}" != x"no"; then
+        AC_DEFINE(ALSA)
+    fi
+    unset alsa
 elif test "${ac_cv_header_sys_soundcard_h}" = "yes" || \
      test "${ac_cv_header_soundcard_h}" = "yes" || \
      test "${ac_cv_header_linux_soundcard_h}" = "yes" || \

Yes the developers agree I can check it in.

> Incidentally, esound doesn't work with the current version of ALSA or
> at least I wasn't able to get it to work.

> I prefer compiling everything for the OSS API and just using the ALSA
> OSS compatibility layer.

Sounds good but I'm not an expert at all; I'm just a happy sound user ;)

Yesterday I've filed several bug reports concerning the gnome-media
package/(g)tcd.  I'm wondering whether there's somebody who take care
about gtcd issues?

gtcd is nice (small), nvertheless some essential features are missing.
The GNOME core packages need a good CD player.

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