Package: libasound2 Version: 1.0.14a-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The PCM plugin `lfloat' isn't compiled into libasound. In particular, this prevents the `plug' plugin from doing linear<->float conversion, and in turn this means that hardly any ALSA clients can use the JACK plugin from libasound2-plugins, because JACK uses FLOAT_LE format throughout.
The reason for this is quite simple: the configure script is broken! In particular, the sense of the `softfloat' check used to decide whether to disable the plugin is wrong! (That's aside from the question of whether it's sensible to fail to build the thing just because it might be slow.) Index: alsa-lib-1.0.14a/configure.in =================================================================== --- alsa-lib-1.0.14a.orig/configure.in 2007-06-27 16:24:58.000000000 +0100 +++ alsa-lib-1.0.14a/configure.in 2007-06-27 16:25:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ build_pcm_share="no" fi -if test "$softfloat" != "yes"; then +if test "$softfloat" = "yes"; then build_pcm_lfloat="no" fi Index: alsa-lib-1.0.14a/configure =================================================================== --- alsa-lib-1.0.14a.orig/configure 2007-06-27 16:25:23.000000000 +0100 +++ alsa-lib-1.0.14a/configure 2007-06-27 16:25:38.000000000 +0100 @@ -20946,7 +20946,7 @@ build_pcm_share="no" fi -if test "$softfloat" != "yes"; then +if test "$softfloat" = "yes"; then build_pcm_lfloat="no" fi -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libasound2 depends on: ii libc6 2.5-9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries libasound2 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
