It's weird how it is setup.
He had SDL, but no libasound.
When SDL tried to access libasound it did not exist.
When he got libasound it worked fine because SDL found it.
What's the problem?

Eugene Kuznetsov wrote:

> Hello Zdenek,
>
> Thursday, January 31, 2002, 11:20:30 AM, you wrote:
>
> >> >> Shouldn't be such a problem caught by configure?
> >>
> >> ZK> Well it might be probably checked as a part of SDL - however you would
> >> ZK> have to figure out if SDL is compiled with or without -lasound
> >> ZK> So I'm not sure if this check belongs to avifile.
> >>
> >> As far as I remember, -lasound comes from libSDL.la. I don't
> >> understand why test for SDL succeeded for him. Vincenzo, did you use
> >> --disable-sdltest?
>
> ZK> But there is just a simple test which doesn't check for any
> ZK> audio capabilities in libsdl and as the function binding is made
> ZK> only when the function is really needed (e.g. when libaviplay needs
> ZK> some audio functions) the missing -lasound is discovered at this
> ZK> time.  As I've said we would have to create more advanced SDL test
> ZK> program instead of the simple one which is currently present
> ZK> in avifile.
>
> Ok, on the second thought, missing -lasound will be discovered only when
> someone tries to do 'libtool gcc something.o
> /usr/local/lib/libSDL.la', and this test is not done by configure.
>
> --
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