Bug 174056

Summary:	sox doesn't use alsa
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matt Domsch <matt_domsch>
Component:	glibc-kernheaders	Assignee:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Matt Domsch 2005-11-24 04:37:42 UTC

Description of problem:
As noted in #155224, sox isn't using alsa-lib, as it should be able to.  This
prevents sox from directly using alsa.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sox-12.17.7-3

Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2005-11-29 13:39:45 UTC

The alsa header files are missing in glibc-kernheaders.

Assigning to glibc-kernheaders.

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2005-11-29 13:46:21 UTC

Shouldn't that be alsa-devel? Userspace shouldn't be looking at kernel headers.

Comment 3 Matthias Saou 2005-11-29 14:47:11 UTC

Yeah, I think we all agreed that the actual issue was that sox uses the kernel
headers to enable ALSA support, when it should be using the alsa-lib layer
instead. So this should be considered a bug in sox unless I'm mistaken.

Comment 4 Chris Bagwell 2005-11-29 15:25:08 UTC

I'm mantainer of SoX... On seperate mail list it was agreed best would be for
SoX to change to alsa-lib.  Current upstream CVS version of SoX has changed its
alsa driver to use alsa-lib so the next release of SoX (12.17.9) will make this
a non-issue.

The next release of SoX will occur any day now.

Besides the above, it is strange to me that sys/soundcard.h is important enough
to be in glibc-headers but not ALSA headers.  Technically, I'd think
sys/soundcard.h should be in glib-kernelheaders, not glib-headers since its an
interface to a kernel driver.

But moving sys/soundcard.h to kernelheaders would kill compiles for about all
OSS drivers, in the same way that SoX currently can't compile with ALSA.

Comment 5 Matt Domsch 2006-10-12 16:42:13 UTC

sox-12.18.1-1 or earlier uses libasound now.  Closing.