[alsa-devel] alsa-lib-1.1.6.tar.bz2: some files are missing in the tarball

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:16:16 +0200,
Lars Wendler wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> please have a look at this Gentoo bug report [1] where a user reported
> that he cannot compile alsa-lib-1.1.6 with --enable-alisp configure
> option. The error message is:
> 
>   make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'SI7018/sndoc-mixer.alisp',
>   needed by 'all-am'. Stop.
> 
> This happens because the directory src/conf/cards/SI7018 is missing
> as well as the following files:
> 
> src/conf/cards/aliases.alisp
> src/conf/smixer.conf
> src/conf/sndo-mixer.alisp
> 
> First I thought those files were removed intentionally but checking the
> alsa-lib git tree I can see all files still being available. So at
> Gentoo we fixed this by re-adding the files through a patch [2].
> 
> Any chance this was an accidental oversight?

It's because the contents of EXTRA_DIST also depends on the configure
option, and the tarball was created without enabling the feature, I
suppose.  Maybe we should fix EXTRA_DIST to list all files
unconditionally.


thanks,

Takashi