Cannot compile bacon - missing sys library alsa.pc

[ondrej-ivanko]

Hi,

I cannot seem to compile bacon, since the latest release v3.9.0. I'm using cargo install --locked bacon command and it fails on missing system library alsa. I have alsa installed, just not the alsa.pc file. $(which alsactl) returns cli.

The compilation log is part of this issue.

One question I have is why does bacon have to use alsa sound library? It's just linter/formatter no?

compilationlog.txt

OS specs:
OS: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.12.9-100.fc40.x86_64
DE: GNOME
WM: Mutter (X11)
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H (20) @ 4.70 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q [Discrete]

[Canop]

This was also mentioned here, and a survey was opened to ask whether the "sound" feature should be enabled by default or not, but unfortunately there's a visibility problem for such discussion so it stalled.

With your report, I think I'll make the feature disabled by default.

[Canop]

Don't close the issue but an immediate solution for you will be to compile bacon with --no-default-features.

[ondrej-ivanko]

This was also mentioned here, and a survey was opened to ask whether the "sound" feature should be enabled by default or not, but unfortunately there's a visibility problem for such discussion so it stalled.

With your report, I think I'll make the feature disabled by default.

Ah cool, should have checked the closed issues before :D The compilation works now. TBH, I have nver ever used the sound feature, so disabling it by default is good idea.

[Canop]

3.9.1 released