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

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 13 May 2019 11:13:58 +0200,
Lars Wendler wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:31:21 +0200 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> >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
> 
> This is still an issue with latest 1.1.9 release tarball. Did you
> forget about this or do you still look for a good solution?

IMO, we should go for dropping alisp.


Takashi