Okay, I think I'm stuck now. lol On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:42 PM Prafulla Giri wrote: > Hello Mr. Lepiller, > > Thank you for the tip. For the moment, I want to poke around this issue. > Perhaps I get absolutely tired of it (or find a good hack - and an ugly > patch). I did manage to learn a bit more about union-builds in general. So, > that's a silver lining. > > Also, your work on guix-android seems so very cool! Please keep up the > great work! > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:28 PM Julien Lepiller > wrote: > >> >> >> Hi Prafulla, >> >> Le 26 septembre 2020 03:31:38 GMT-04:00, Prafulla Giri < >> pratheblackdiamond@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >Another information: >> > >> >I have other programs on my foreign system (installed via guix) that >> >produce sound well, without any issues. They include: >> >espeak and kdenlive. >> > >> >Also, I did try making the union-build use copies instead of symlinks >> >using >> >(union-build ... #:symlink copy-recursively) but that didn't work out >> >either. >> > >> >Now, I'm going to take a look at fixing the pkg-config rules, and will >> >be >> >updating this thread should that resolve this issue. >> > >> >On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:21 PM Prafulla Giri >> > >> >wrote: >> > >> >> I forgot to mention, but the union-build works. If one `guix build`s >> >the >> >> union package, and cd into the /gnu/store/...-union-build, one will >> >see >> >> that things are there as it should be (lib/normal-alsa-*.so and >> >> lib/alsa-lib/*pulse*.so). >> >> >> >> It's just that aegisub seems to be looking from the >> >> /gnu/store/normal-alsa-lib-dir instead of >> >/gnu/store/union-alsa-package. >> >> >> >> I think the issue with the union-build is that it is completely ignored: >> alsa doesn't look in it's current directory for plugins, but in the >> directory where it's been configured (at build time) to look for. >> >> On the Guix System, there is a service that creates a /etc/asound.conf, >> which references alsa-plugins:pulseaudio. Maybe you actually want to >> configure that? Maybe try to copy this to a new file .asoundrc: >> >> pcm_type.pule { >> lib "/home/foo/.guix-profile/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so" >> } >> >> ctl_type.pulse { >> lib"/home/foo/.guix-profile/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so" >> } >> >> pcm.!default { >> type pulse >> } >> >> ctl.!default { >> type pulse >> } >> >