[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#951931: alsa-tools: FTBFS: hdsp.h:77:7: error: variable or field ‘__user’ declared void

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: alsa-tools
Version: 1.1.7-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on amd64
Tags: buster sid
Usertags: ftbfs-20200222 ftbfs-buster

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> x86_64-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"hdspconf\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"hdspconf\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.4\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"hdspconf\ 1.4\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"hdspconf\" -DVERSION=\"1.4\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_LIBASOUND=1 -I.   -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security   -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16    -fno-exceptions -MT hdspconf.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/hdspconf.Tpo -c -o hdspconf.o hdspconf.cxx
> In file included from hdspconf.cxx:27:
> /usr/include/alsa/sound/hdsp.h:77:7: error: variable or field ‘__user’ declared void
>    77 |  void __user *firmware_data; /* 24413 x 4 bytes */
>       |       ^~~~~~
> /usr/include/alsa/sound/hdsp.h:77:7: error: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration
>    77 |  void __user *firmware_data; /* 24413 x 4 bytes */
>       |       ^~~~~~
>       |             ;
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:340: hdspconf.o] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/02/22/alsa-tools_1.1.7-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.