Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking latest ALSA modules

[Arcady Genkin <agenkin@thpoon.com>]

Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:

>> > For me it seemed too harsh that alsa-lib fails to build if
>> > alsa-driver is not installed 
>> 
>> Alsa-driver installs a bunch of header files, without which the -lib
>> will not compile.  Therefore, -driver is a dependency for -lib.
>
> yes, but it seems (might have been just the *.tar.gz) that it wants
> a kernel source tree to which can be very inconvenient.

Einar, could you please expand on your point?  I might be dense, but I
can't understand what inconvenience you are talking about. ;^)

alsa-driver package, indeed, requires linux sources to compile.
alsa-lib does not directly need the kernel sources, but it needs the
headers, installed by the alsa-driver package; so it requres the
kernel sources indirectly...
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Arcady Genkin