[alsa-devel] Need some help building alsa-utils

[Jamey Kirby]

I have made progress. I am not at this point, and do not know what to do:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... /bin/bash: ./config.rpath:
No such file or directory
done
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for cross-compiler... gcc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ALSA CFLAGS...
checking for ALSA LDFLAGS...  -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread
checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.16... found.
checking for snd_ctl_open in -lasound... yes
checking for alsa/pcm.h... yes
checking for alsa/mixer.h... yes
checking for alsa/rawmidi.h... yes
checking for alsa/seq.h... yes
checking for librt... checking for clock_gettime in -lrt... yes
checking for xmlto... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for ncursesw5-config... no
checking for initscr in -lncursesw... no
checking for ncurses5-config... yes
checking for curses library... ncurses
checking for curses header name... <ncurses.h>
checking for curses compiler flags... -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE
checking for curses NLS support... no
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking panel.h usability... yes
checking panel.h presence... yes
checking for panel.h... yes
checking menu.h usability... yes
checking menu.h presence... yes
checking for menu.h... yes
checking form.h usability... yes
checking form.h presence... yes
checking for form.h... yes
checking for new_panel in -lpanel... yes
checking for new_menu in -lmenu... yes
checking for new_form in -lform... yes
checking for curses linker flags... -lform -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses -ltinfo
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'

I'd like to get this built and tested. If it works out, i'd like to
contribute my changes to alsa-utils to the repository.


On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 12:31 AM Jamey Kirby <kirby.jamey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been working with alsa for a while. We use it to archive
> content from our radio station. I am using arecord.
>
> Build problem:
>
> 1) I cloned alsa-utils from github
> 2) Spent two hours on Google trying to figure out how to build the darn
> thing.
> 3) I am running Ubuntu Server 18.0 with build-essentials installed.
> 4) I get errors that I do not know how to fix when I try to setup
> ./configure.
> 5) I just need to make a build. What do I need to do?
>
> Feature:
>
> I am adding a feature. In the loop for capture(), when a new file is
> opened, I want to close the old file (when doing continuous
> recording). I added a new CLI parameter -K. When this is set, the
> capture() loop will close the old file before opening the new file.
>
> This is an issue for me for two reasons:
>
> 1) When will i run out of file handles? I capture one hour files
> continuously. After 10 hours, I see that all the capture files are
> still open?
> 2) I need to be notified when the file is closed so that I can do
> post-processing of rht capture. I've tried inotifywait in a script,
> and in another script I tried lsof. lsof works great, but the files
> are open,. See, the main issue is that I need to know when each file
> completes so that I can post process.
>
> Here is my post process script outline:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> for f in $HOME/vboxshare/jkirby/newarc/*.raw
>   do
>     filename=$(basename $f)
>     open=$(lsof -t $f | wc -w)
>     if [ $open -lt 1 ]
>       then
>         echo "$filename is closed"
>         echo "Do post processing here"
>       else
>         echo "$filename is open by $open processe(s)"
>     fi
>   done
>
> If I could close the file before or after the previous file is closed,
> I can do my work. Otherwise, I have no way to know if the file is open
> and being processed or not.
>
> So, I've made the changes, I just need to build the darn thing.
>
> Thanks for any advice or help.
>
> --
> Jamey Kirby
> Disrupting the establishment since 1964
>
> This is a personal email account and as such, emails are not subject
> to archiving. Nothing else really matters.
>


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Disrupting the establishment since 1964

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