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From: Colin Guthrie <gmane@colin.guthr.ie>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alsa-driver git repo: Build problems when copying symlink to itself
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:47:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilfj0r$bls$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilfi0p$7hr$1@dough.gmane.org>

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'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 12/03/11 10:30 did gyre and gimble:
> 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.

And here is another error I stumbled on. The attached patch fixes this.

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'
ln -s ../../alsa-kernel/include/alc5623.h
ln: failed to create symbolic link `./alc5623.h': File exists
make[3]: *** [alc5623.h] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/colin/Development/Personal/ALSA/alsa-driver/include/sound'
make[2]: *** [prepare] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/colin/Development/Personal/ALSA/alsa-driver/include/sound'
make[1]: *** [prepare] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/colin/Development/Personal/ALSA/alsa-driver/include'
make: *** [dep] Error 1


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>From d7b95b81a62faeab1e565946d91e4771b8128ce0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Guthrie <cguthrie@mandriva.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:46:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure the destination of the symlink doesn't yet exists.

Similar to my last patch, the symlinking process can also fail due to the
destination file already being present. This ensures we wipe the file first.
---
 include/sound/Makefile |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/sound/Makefile b/include/sound/Makefile
index f992c01..0e09df4 100644
--- a/include/sound/Makefile
+++ b/include/sound/Makefile
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ version.h: ../version.h
 	patch -p0 -i $< $@
 
 %.h:
+	rm -f $@
 	ln -s $(INCSRC)/$@
 
 .includes.tmp:
-- 
1.7.4.1


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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-12 10:30 [PATCH] alsa-driver git repo: Build problems when copying symlink to itself Colin Guthrie
2011-03-12 10:47 ` Colin Guthrie [this message]
2011-03-14  9:43 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-03-14 13:16   ` Colin Guthrie
2011-03-14 13:21     ` Takashi Iwai
2011-03-14 15:06       ` Colin Guthrie
2011-03-14 15:14         ` Takashi Iwai
2011-03-14  9:54 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2011-03-14 11:25   ` Colin Guthrie
2011-03-14 13:11     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2011-03-14 13:16     ` Takashi Iwai

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