Subject: Re: bug#40832: alsa-lib cannot find its plugins

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 15:51:07 -0500

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:02:59PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Upstream has implemented (but not yet released) a potential solution:
> 
> https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/commit/8580c081c25678d11278efcb61bd15cf44d0a225
> 
> I haven't tested it yet but my understanding is that it supports
> specifying a single plugin directory via the ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR environment
> variable.

I'm very happy to report that this fix has been deployed for Guix users
in commit ed1c72c3d7d6b6d3b110817fcc037cd5582ac848