Re: oss won't compile

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At Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:04:59 -0500,
Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> On Dec 20, 2007 9:31 PM, Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Ismael Farfán Estrada wrote:
>  > In file included from
> /tmp/alsa-driver-1.0.15/acore/../alsa-kernel/core/info_oss.c:30,
> > >                 from /tmp/alsa-driver-1.0.15/acore/info_oss.c:6:
> > > include/linux/utsname.h:37:52: error: macro "init_utsname" passed 1 arguments, but takes just 0       <-------
> >
> > It looks to me like your alsa is incompatible with your kernel.
> > I vaguely recall that alsa 1.0.15 was for kernel greater than  2.6.18 but I
> > could be wrong.
> 
> ALSA build process is supposed to be backwards compatible with old
> kernels - at least back to 2.4 (maybe 2.2).

For the older kernel, init_utsname() is defined for compatibility (see
alsa-driver/acore/info_oss.c).  Maybe that's the problem.  RH likely
defines an incompatible version of init_utsname() and it conflicts.

> Most likely the problem is that he's running a vendor patched kernel.
> Which is also supposed to work last time I checked - at least for Red
> Hat and SuSE kernels.
> 
> Takashi-san, has 1.0.15 been tested against the CentOS 5/RHEL5 kernel?

Maybe not.  I haven't checked RH kernels.


Takashi

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