Re: libasound

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:45:16PM -0400, Dennis Burke wrote:
> I compiled gnumeric-1.1.90 about a week ago with no problems.  
>
> Yesterday I tried gnumeric-1.2.0 but after upgrading libbonobo, libbonoboui,
> and libgsf-1.8.2 configure worked but compile failed because it couldn't
> link with libasound.la (Sorry - the exact error is on another machine.) To
> my knowledge I have never used or needed this library.  I gather this may be
> used with the ALSA sound system. I am using Slackware current (9.0+) and
> Linux kernel 2.4.22.  
>
> What should I do here?

I don't have access to a slackware testing environment.  My first
guess would be to grep through <prefix>/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc to see if
there are any mentions of libasound.  Something somewhere is tacking
it, nothing in libgsf or gnumeric uses that directly in any way.