> I'm using Slackware and I want to install audio/xmms, but I always
> get, at the end of the configure step:
> 
> Configuration:
>  Install path:               /usr/pkg
>  Build OSS plugin:           yes
>  Build esd plugin:           no
>  Build Solaris plugin:       no
>  Build BSD Sun plugin:       no
>  Build ALSA plugin:          no
>  Build mikmod plugin:        yes
>  Build Ogg Vorbis plugin:    yes
>  Build OpenGL plugins:       yes
>  Pthread flag:               -lpthread
>  Use one plugin dir:         no
>  Allow user plugin dir:      yes
> 
> Since I use ALSA, I would like this plugin to be built. When I check
> out the config.log file, I find following related lines:
> 
> configure:15874: checking for ALSA CFLAGS
> configure:15880: result:
> configure:15883: checking for ALSA LDFLAGS
> configure:15896: result:  -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread
> configure:15900: checking for libasound headers version >= 0.9.0
> configure:15969: gcc -c -O2 -march=athlon-xp -I/usr/pkg/include
> -DGLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY -I/usr/include -I/usr/pkg/include/freetype2
> -DHAVE_ICONV_OPEN=1 -I/usr/pkg/include -DGLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY
> -I/usr/include -I/usr/pkg/include/freetype2 conftest.c >&5
> configure:16002:28: alsa/asoundlib.h: No such file or directory
> configure:16030:12: #error not present
> 
> However, the file /usr/pkg/include/alsa/asoundlib.h does exist.

Do you have alsa headers installed at all with you core/base OS? 
(Installed with slackware?)

If not, you may want to install them.

Also, alsa-lib is in pkgsrc. (I have used it a lot, but may be out of date 
now.) If you use that, then adjust the xmms Makefile to also have:
.include "../../wip/alsa-lib/buildlink3.mk"


  Jeremy C. Reed