Re: [Jack-Devel] Why is ALSA not enabled by default?

Dan MacDonald <[hidden]> writes:

> It would seem that when you build JACK from source, you still have to
> manually specify ALSA support, even if the ALSA dev stuff is installed
> correctly and found by configure.
>
> Why oh why is this still the case? If configure finds the ALSA headers etc,
> ALSA support should be enabled by default as most people will not get by
> with just dummy drivers and need ALSA enabled for JACK to be usable.

There is no universally accepted solution to the problem. Distro
packagers tend to prefer explicit feature selection at configure stage.
User-o-developers building from source prefer to build with all features
possible.

This particular begaviour was changed some time ago by sletz accepting a
"patch" from a packager.

I'd personally favour building with all available features unless
explicitly specified with something like --with/without-alsa,
--with-alsa=yes/no or --enable/disable-alsa

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Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: 5D1B58ED>

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