[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#540307: Bug#540307: FTBFS with linux kernel 2.6.30

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Ben Hutchings [090915 13:33 +0100]
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 13:28 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > * Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> [090914 23:15]:
> > > This is a bug in alsa-source: it includes old versions of many Linux
> > > kernel headers that override those in the linux-headers-$version
> > > package.
> > > 
> > > In particular, the very first reported compiler error results from the
> > > inclusion of alsa-source's include/linux/compiler.h which does not
> > > define the __section() macro.
> > 
> > And why does alsa_source builds fine with stock vanilla kernel?:
> > 
> > ....
> > make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver'
> > /usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.30 SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver  CPP="gcc-4.3 -E" CC="gcc-4.3" modules
> > make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30'
> >   CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/hrtimer.o
> >   CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/hwdep.o
> >   CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/memory_wrapper.o
> > .....
> > 
> > There must be something wrong with the headers. BTW on 2.6.31 it builds fine as
> > well! All modules ;-)
> 
> I don't know what ALSA's build system is doing; that's your job as
> maintainer.  Hint: V=1.

Sorry, I'm a newbie and can't interpret your hint. I just wantet to
point out, that the Debian Package "alsa-source-1.0.20+dfsg-2'
builds without errors via fakeroot make-kpkg modules_image on both
2.6.(3|1) vanilla kernels! So where to follow up fixing the FTBFS
mentioned in this bug?

Elimar


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