Description: compile in the ALSA search path instead of relying on ld.so.conf The Ubuntu package currently uses ld.so.conf.d fragments to add /usr/lib/alsa-lib and /usr/lib{32,64}/alsa-lib to the dlopen search path. These don't *belong* on the global search path, and it becomes much more problematic to put them there with the advent of multiarch because each architecture then needs its own distinct config file to add the separate path... which is then also put in the global library namespace. Instead, let ALSA make use of the already defined ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR to look up plugins. Author: Steve Langasek Index: alsa-lib-1.0.24.1/src/dlmisc.c =================================================================== --- alsa-lib-1.0.24.1.orig/src/dlmisc.c +++ alsa-lib-1.0.24.1/src/dlmisc.c @@ -67,7 +67,25 @@ #endif #endif #ifdef HAVE_LIBDL - return dlopen(name, mode); + /* + * Handle the plugin dir not being on the default dlopen search + * path, without resorting to polluting the entire system namespace + * via ld.so.conf. + */ + void *handle = NULL; + char *filename; + + if (name && name[0] != '/') { + filename = malloc(sizeof(ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR) + 1 + strlen(name) + 1); + strcpy(filename, ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR); + strcat(filename, "/"); + strcat(filename, name); + handle = dlopen(filename, mode); + free(filename); + } + if (!handle) + handle = dlopen(name, mode); + return handle; #else return NULL; #endif