On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:54:51AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > I am trying to build alsa-utils from source, but am clearly missing something > obvious. > > 1. I executed: > apt-get source alsa-utils > and that seemed to run OK, generating: > > drwxr-xr-x 23 n7dr n7dr 4096 May 29 07:41 alsa-utils-1.1.8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 n7dr n7dr 27076 Apr 9 2019 alsa-utils_1.1.8-2.debian.tar.xz > -rw-r--r-- 1 n7dr n7dr 2346 Apr 9 2019 alsa-utils_1.1.8-2.dsc > -rw-r--r-- 1 n7dr n7dr 1019988 Feb 11 2019 alsa-utils_1.1.8.orig.tar.bz2 > > 2. In alsa-utils-1.1.8, there is no BUILD file (which is what I'm used to > seeing), but there is an INSTALL file, which says: > for installation you can use these commands: > ./configure > make install > so I figured that the normal "./configure; make" would perform the build. > > 3. There is no ./configure file :-( So there seems to be an inconsistency > between the instructions and what is actually supplied. > > Without a ./configure file, I don't know how to proceed :-(
Most probably (I'm assuming alsautils is an autoconf package), there is a configure.ac from which to generate the configure script. So you'd first have to invoke autoconf for that. BUT WAIT! This is a Debian package. One of the things Debian does for you is to unify all that buildery. So first - install the package "build-essential" - install the packages alsa-util's build depends on: apt-get build-dep alsa-utils - change into alsa-utils-1.1.8 - invoke there dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us (look up in the man page what those things mean) A finished Debian package apears next to alsa-utils-1.1.8. Unless... I've forgotten something, that is. Just come back. > FWIW, all I really want to build is aplay, but all my attempts to do that > manually throw up compilation errors. Once you went through all that buildery, you'll have all the needed things installed and perhaps an up-and-runnable configure lying around. It will be far easier to hack into something which was jump-started for you :-) BTW -- if you wonder about where the Debian build system knows what to do, have a look into the subdir alsa-utils-1.1.8/debian. Cheers -- tomás
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