From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Simple suggestion for a make target Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:37:34 -0400 Message-ID: <1126640254.13893.37.camel@mindpipe> References: <20050913192422.73152.qmail@web60825.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050913192422.73152.qmail@web60825.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: tsw@johana.com Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:24 -0700, Tom Watson wrote: > Since it appears that frequently the kernel source has older versions of alsa > when released, wouldn't it be wise to have a target in the alsa-driver-xx.yy.z > directory that finds the kernel sources, and updates them. Then one could > re-compile the kernel and all would be well with the world. > > For those who don't wish to do this, the "./configure;make;make install" > sequence would work as well. > > I suspect that the kernel configuration would pass thru, so one wouldn't need > to configure before "transferring" sources, but not being an expert, I don't > know. > > Maybe this would encourage distrubutions that diddle with the kernel source to > have an up-to-date alsa. What would be the point? It's already simpler than that. Just ./configure && make && make install in alsa-driver directory to install a newer ALSA. It just overwrites the old ALSA modules that came with the kernel with the newer ones. You don't even need to reboot. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php