Sorry, I know it's bad, practice, replying to oneself. But I solved it.
There seem to have been a lot of bugs around 1.0.14 in the alsa-lib. I had
to fix the ./configure script, or better configure.in.
so if anyone's interested, that's the solution.
Kindest regards
Julien
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