diff --git a/recipes/alsa-lib/Makefile b/recipes/alsa-lib/Makefile
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+name = alsa-lib
+version = 1.2.3
+URL = ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-$(version).tar.bz2
+
+description = "alsa-lib contains the user space library that developers compile ALSA applications against."
+
+SYSCONF ?= ../../
+include $(SYSCONF)/package.mk