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

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> 'Twas brillig, and Jaroslav Kysela at 14/03/11 09:54 did gyre and gimble:
>> 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.
>
> Both trees are clean.
>
> They are clones from
>
> git://git.alsa-project.org/alsa-driver.git
> and
> git://git.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel.git

What's 'alsa-driver/include/sound/info.h' in your tree after the error? 
It's a symlink?

I tried compilation from both of my kmirror/kernel git repos and it looks 
OK.

> Also Jaroslav, are you the list admin? I've always send mails to this
> list via gmane, but as reply-all is the etiquette, I want to make sure
> I'm registered and such for posting. But the mailman admin page wont let

I subscribed your address 'gmane at colin.guthr.ie' manually.

 					Jaroslav

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