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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE and ALSA 0.9beta10 build
From:       Dan Armak <danarmak () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2002-02-27 23:43:19
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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 16:43, tk188366@stmail.staffs.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Firstly, i apolagise for posting again, but i posted this message in the
> user list but it was appended to a long already existing thread and i think
> should have been posted in the developer section anyway. Sorry. Anyway here
> we go.
>
>
> I did a recent reinstall and decided to unmask the latest alsa 0.9beta10
> because the alsa 0.5 version gave me massive interference when accessing
> ide devices (bug?), the OSS kernel module didn't but the ASLA driver seemed
> a much nicer solution with more features.
>
> So far i have built XFree, Gnome, XMMS,Ogle and various other progs without
> any problems, when it comes to building KDE building KDEMultimedia 2.2.2
> fails when compiling Kmidi, specifically , the build fails in the TIMIDITY
> directory, typing make produces
> the folowing output;
>
>
> In file included from alsa_a.c:55:
> /usr/include/sys/asoundlib.h:1: warning: #warning This header is
> deprecated, use <alsa/asoundlib.h> instead.
> alsa_a.c: In function `check_sound_cards':
> alsa_a.c:153: storage size of `ctl_hw_info' isn't known
> alsa_a.c:154: storage size of `pcm_info' isn't known
> alsa_a.c:189: warning: passing arg 2 of `snd_ctl_open' makes pointer from
> integer without a cast
> ...
> ...etc
> ...etc
> ...
> alsa_a.c: In function `output_count':
> alsa_a.c:614: storage size of `playback_status' isn't known
> alsa_a.c: In function `flush_output':
> alsa_a.c:662: `SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK' undeclared (first use in this
> function)alsa_a.c: In function `purge_output':
> alsa_a.c:670: `SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK' undeclared (first use in this
> function)make: *** [alsa_a.o] Error 1
>
>
> I cahanged the references in the relevant files from
> /usr/include/sys/asoundlib.h to  /usr/include/alsa/asoundlib.h
> as the warning sugested but this made no change.
>
>
> I am not the most knowledgable person with regards to linux but am quite
> competant. I am wondering if this is a known bug when building with the new
> ALSA drivers or wether there is a workaround? I don' really use any MIDI at
> all anyway, so is there a way i can bypass this part of the build to get
> KDE up and running?
Well, if you disable the alsa USE flag then kdelibs won't try to link against 
alsa at all.

I also suspect that kde3 has better support for alsa 0.9.

-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE)
Matan, Israel

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