From: Martin_Storsj
Subject: Dynamic loading of ALSA

I recently discovered that SDL can dynamically load ESD and aRts, and
made a patch which adds this same functionality to ALSA.

The update for configure.in isn't too good (it should e.g. look for
libasound.so in other directories than /usr/lib), because I'm not too
good at shellscripting and autoconf.

The reason for using dlfcn.h and dlopen instead of SDL_LoadLibrary and
SDL_LoadFunction is that libasound uses versioned symbols, and it is
necessary to load the correct version using dlvsym. This isn't probably
any real portability issue, because ALSA is linux-only.

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