[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#531668: Bug#531668: alsa-driver autoconf script is broken

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 14:16 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> thank you very much for your cooperation!
> 
> * Ben Hutchings [100327 04:06 +0000]
> > Here is a debdiff for all the required changes in alsa-driver to work
> > with 2.6.32.  This adds a call to autoconf at build time and modifies a
> > couple of existing patches accordingly.  You should also delete
> > debian/patches/disable_gcc_version_check2.patch.
> 
> What I don't understand is: Why does the debian package build
> against a plain, vanilla build?

Because that is what it was tested against.

> There we have both the same for
> /lib/modules/$(KVERS)/build and /lib/modules/$(KVERS)/source which
> are different to the Debian kernels. If I merge source and build
> from the Debian ones, alsa drivers are build well. If your patch is
> needed to get alsa drivers build against Debian kernels this is a
> "Debian specific" solution.

Not it is not.

> BTW, IIRC the drivers build well till
> Debain-2.6.26 or so. This is a bit suspicious for me. As well I
> noticed no bug against upstream version which is similar to ours....
> 
> There is a new bug coming up from 2.6.33. Here we have
> include/generated which is unknown to make-kpkg modules-image.

Use 'make deb-pkg'.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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