Re: ALSA (CVS) doesn't compile on recent linux (alsa-driver)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:16:10 +0200,
Carlo Wood wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:06:20PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > and run make on the top of kernel-source tree.
> > you don't need any files in alsa-drivers tree.
> > 
> > (well, i know this bug must be fixed because some experimental drivers
> >  only exist in alsa-driver tree.)
> 
> Now I am confused... you are saying that
> I don't need the alsa-driver directory that
> is checked out with CVS?

alsa-driver tree contains some wrapper and extra things to build the
ALSA driver modules on 2.2/2.4 kernels.  also, as mentioned above,
some experimental driver codes are in it, too.  anyway, for 2.5/2.6,
you can build the ALSA drivers without alsa-driver tree (excpet for
snddevices script or init script if you need them).


> As in:
> 
> rm -rf alsa-driver
 
for 2.5/2.6, yes, if you want.

(snip)
> Ok - so you can't run 'make' at all in the CVS root.
 
no.  it looks broken and should be fixed or removed.
i've never used it.


> Then do I understand correctly that:
> 
> 1) alsa-conf and alsa-driver can be deleted.
> 2) alsa-kernel needs to be copied to /lib/modules/*/build/sound
>    and alsa-kernel/include to /lib/modules/*/build/include/sound
>    and then run 'make modules' in /lib/modules/*/build
> 3) One needs to run 'make; make install' as root in
>    alsa-lib and alsa-utils seperately.

yes.  (you can run make as normal user, though.)

> 4) The rest can't be built ('make' doesn't work).

alsa-tools and alsa-oss should be ok, too (if you have installed
necessary GUI toolkits for alsa-tools).
the trees which are not released as 0.9.x tarballs are all obsolete.

> 5) Again: alsa-drivers is not needed at all for me.

yep, as long as you run 2.5/2.6 kernels only.


ciao,

Takashi


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