[Buildroot] broken alsa-lib

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> writes:

Hi,

 >> Alsa-lib had an issue with !LARGEFILE support that we fixed recently
 >> and pushed upstream, but other than that I don't remember any
 >> bugreports.

 Daniel> Hmm, what I see is certainly not a LARGEFILE issue.

Probably not, just mentioning the only bugs we've found in alsa lib
recently.

 >> You mentioned something about 1.0.19, but buildroot is still using
 >> 1.0.18, are you using some local changes?

 Daniel> Yes, true, forgot to mention that. We locally patched to use
 Daniel> 1.0.19 but that was merely because I hoped to fix the problem
 Daniel> by that - the same problem exists with 1.0.18. And I got this
 Daniel> problem since a long time and always patched my way around it
 Daniel> (by overriding the value with some hard-coded constant) as I
 Daniel> thought it is a minor issue that will be fixed sooner or
 Daniel> later. But as it turns out, the problem seems to be bigger
 Daniel> and might also have other impact than just that single
 Daniel> failing function call.

Please report those kind of problems to us so we have a chance to fix
them. This is the first I hear of it.

 Daniel> I'll build alsa-lib and alsa-utils with OE tomorrow and see
 Daniel> whether that makes any difference.

Great, Please send us the config.log from OE and BR if it works under
OE.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard