you really do not want to upgrade to alsa-lib 1.1.2

[Chris Brannon]

Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> writes:

> I have a long-running espeakup process here which, now that I give it more
> thought, may have been started prior to the 1.1.2 upgrade and may still be
> using the older version of the library.

Yes, that's pretty likely.  I'm writing this from emacspeak, and my
speech server has been up since July 23rd, a week or two prior to the
alsa upgrade.  My espeakup was fine until yesterday, when I restarted it
because Kirk said that his had gone flaky.
In any case, if LIBASOUND_THREAD_SAFE=0 is exported in your environment
when you start espeakup or the emacspeak server, you won't have the
issue either.  If you're stuck with the new library for some reason, or
you just want to have something that can talk while you are testing,
this is a viable short-term workaround.

-- Chris