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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:25:02 +0000,
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
> 
> I'm trying Takashi's other repos, now but the sound-2.6 clone is taking
> about 2h and counting....

If you have another kernel git tree, you can clone more quickly via 
--reference option.

	% git clone --reference /somewhere/linus-2.6.git ..../sound-2.6.git


Takashi