[PlanetCCRMA] Building Alsa RPMs...

[Mark Knecht]

Fernando,
   Cool. This will keep it easier for me, for now. I'll try this out later
today.

   On two machines I've seen these failures now. I wonder what's different
about my 7.3 machines and yours?

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> [mailto:planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU]On Behalf Of Fernando Pablo
> Lopez-Lezcano
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 12:45 PM
> To: Mark Knecht
> Cc: PlanetCCRMA
> Subject: RE: [PlanetCCRMA] Building Alsa RPMs...
>
>
> > > > Anyway, why is the rpm in the i686 directory? What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Nothing wrong. The instructions are not complete and do not cover all
> > > possible cases ("you are in a maze of twisty little passages,
> all alike"
> > > :-)
> > FYI - you are in a maze of email messages coming from me. They all look
> > alike, however, I am working on three separate machines, so don't assume
> > that it's always the same machine or the same kernel. ;-)
> >
> > Ok, so following my nose in this dark passage, I modify your Step 3 for
> > i686 architectures and get good looking results:
> >
> > su
> > cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> > rpm -bb alsa-driver-0.9.0-44.spec
> > rpm -Uvh ../RPMS/i686/alsa-driver*0.9.0-44.i366.rpm
> >
> >
> > I then start step 4 and get bad results:
> >
> > cp: cannot create regular file `./install-sh': No such file or directory
> > automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
> >    error while copying
>
> Weird, sounds like a permissions problem but that does not make sense...
> I'll try rebuilding in a rh7.3 system.
>
> Anyway, in your particular case you can skip the rest of the steps and
> only modify / install the alsa-driver rpms. Why? You are just going to
> apply a small patch to a specific driver, so essentially the libs and
> utils are going to keep working fine and do not need to be rebuild. If
> you were to, for example, download a new cvs tarball then you would need
> to rebuild all.
>
> So
> - copy the patch to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> - add it to the spec file:
>   search for "patch4" and add both a description of the patch:
>
> Patch4: ....
> Patch5: name_of_patch_file
>
>   and apply the patch
>
> %patch4 -p1
> %patch5 -p1
>
> - rebuild the alsa-driver binary rpms
> - reinstall the alsa-driver binary rpms
> - restart alsa
> - test
>
> -- Fernando
> [BTW: the compile of alsa-lib works on a 7.3 machine...]
>
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