[alsa-devel] Building Takashi's sound-2.6.git?

[Stephen Warren]

Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 
> > Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> At Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:04:03 -0700,
> >>>>> Stephen Warren wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'd like to use/develop-against/patch the ALSA drivers from:
> >>>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
> >>>>>> ...
> >>>>>> ... However, I can't see how to
> >>>>>> get gitcompile from there to build the sound subset of a complete kernel
> >>>>>> tree rather than e.g. something like:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> See alsa-driver/INSTALL, "Compilation from Linux kernel tree" section.
> >>>>> In short, run utils/setup-alsa-kernel $YOUR_SOUND_GIT_TREE_APATH
> >>>>> then gitcompile can be used.
> >>>>
> >>>> It's not required. The alsa-driver/Makefile handles both alsa-kmirror and
> >>>> alsa-kernel trees now.
> >>>
> >>> When I check out Takashi's sound-2.6 tree, am I suppose to explicitly
> >>> specify the checkout directory so that it's named alsa-kmirror now instead
> >>> of sound-2.6; the git-compile script doesn't check for the name sound-2.6.
> >>> Should the following be updated to search for more names:
> >>>
> >>> test -z $ALSAKERNELDIR && ALSAKERNELDIR=../alsa-kmirror
> >>
> >> If you like, send a patch to gitcompile to check for sound-2.6 directory
> >> as well. I'm using different naming (alsa-kernel), so the gitcompile
> >> script checks for alsa-kernel and alsa-kmirror trees.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work:
> >
> > ALSAKERNELDIR=../sound-2.6/sound ./gitcompile
> 
> It should be:
> 
> ALSAKERNELDIR=../sound-2.6 ./gitcompile

sound-2.6 is a complete Linux kernel tree, not just the ALSA drivers.
Hence, the second part of the following test fails, because last.c is in
../sound-2.6/sound/last.c not ../sound-2.6/last.c

if [ ! -d $ALSAKERNELDIR -o ! -f $ALSAKERNELDIR/last.c ]; then
    echo "No alsa-kmirror is found."

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