[alsa-devel] [PATCH] alsa-driver git repo: Build problems when copying symlink to itself

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After doing a "simple":
> git clone alsa-driver
> git clone alsa-kernel
> cd alsa-driver
> ./gitcompile --with-debug=full --with-isapnp=yes --with-sequencer=yes
> --with-moddir=updates/alsa:
>
> The build bombed out pretty quickly with the following error.
>
> The attached patch fixes it.
>
> Hacking autoconf.h...
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/colin/Development/Personal/ALSA/alsa-driver/include'
> make -C sound prepare
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/colin/Development/Personal/ALSA/alsa-driver/include/sound'
> make prepare2
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/home/colin/Development/Personal/ALSA/alsa-driver/include/sound'
> cp ../../alsa-kernel/include/ac97_codec.h .
> patch -p0 -i ac97_codec.patch ac97_codec.h
> patching file ac97_codec.h
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 650 (offset 5 lines).
> cp ../../alsa-kernel/include/core.h .
> patch -p0 -i core.patch core.h
> patching file core.h
> cp ../../alsa-kernel/include/info.h .
> cp: `../../alsa-kernel/include/info.h' and `./info.h' are the same file

I don't see this error using 'alsa-compile.sh --git' on Fedora 14... Make 
sure that the alsa-driver tree is clean before build.

 						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.