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

[Ben Hutchings]

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.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
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