Bugzilla Bug 196636

After compiling soundtracker-0.6.8 with the alsa use flag, soundtracker fails
to provide me with the option to use alsa output. 

Although all other applications seem to work fine with alsa, I noticed this in
the config output for soundtracker: 
....
checking for setresuid... yes
checking for snd_pcm_plug_open in -lasound... yes
*** ALSA v0.9 found on your system. No audio drivers available
*** for ALSA v0.9. No problem, just use OSS driver or JACK instead.
checking for esd-config... /usr/bin/esd-config
checking for ESD - version >= 0.2.8... yes
checking for esd_play_stream... no
....

I suppose it's possible that I'm doing something wrong, but no other
applications have complained about alsa drivers. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set alsa use flag in make.conf
2. Compile soundtracker
3. Start soundtracker, go to settings and Audio configuration and attempt to
switch to the ALSA sound system. 

Actual Results:  
Option is missing. 

Expected Results:  
Option should be present. 

I'm marking this bug as Major since it prevents me from using this program
effectively.

Attach a complete emerge log here, and post emerge --info please.

 # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:04:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r5
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-pipe -march=athlon-xp -O3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -march=athlon-xp -O3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer
regenworld sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi alsa ao apache2
arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cairo calendar cdr cli
cpudetection cracklib crypt cups dbus dga directfb divx dri dts dv dvd dvdnav
dvdr dvdread eds emboss emerald encode esd evo fam fat ffmpeg fftw firefox flac
flash fortran gcj gd gdbm gdm gif glade glitz gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv icq imap ipv6 isdnlog jack java javascript
jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos lame ldap libwww lm_sensors mad memlimit midi
mikmod mime mmx mmxext mono mp3 mpeg mpeg2 msn mudflap ncurses nls nptl
nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png
postgresql postscript pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline
reflection reiserfs samba sdl session skins sndfile spell spl sse ssl svg svga
system-libvncserver tcltk tcpd tetex threads threadsafe tiff tk tkinter
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vim vnc vncviewer vorbis
win32codecs wxwindows x11vnc x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xfs xinerama xml xorg xv
xvid xvnc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x
ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel
intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Created an attachment (id=134059) [details]
emerge soundtracker > emerge.log

from http://www.soundtracker.org/requirements.php3

The ALSA driver supports only the v0.4.x and v0.5.x architectures of ALSA. For
later versions, please use the OSS emulation included with ALSA, and the
standard OSS driver from SoundTracker. If you want to make use of the MIDI
input features of SoundTracker, please install one of the supported ALSA
versions.


Looks like the project needs a new upstream maintainer

Removed USE alsa, we can use jack or oss.