Issue resolved: 1) Old version from GitHub. Replaced with one from alsa org. 2) Ran ./gitcompile All is well. On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 2:47 PM Jamey Kirby <kirby.jamey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have made progress. I am not at this point, and do not know what to do: > > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p > checking for gawk... gawk > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes > checking whether make supports nested variables... yes > checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed > checking whether NLS is requested... yes > checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt > checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt > checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext > checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge > checking for style of include used by make... GNU > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking for suffix of executables... > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed > checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes > checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 > checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld > checking if the linker (/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld) is GNU ld... yes > checking for shared library run path origin... /bin/bash: ./config.rpath: > No such file or directory > done > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep > checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E > checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no > checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no > checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes > checking whether to use NLS... yes > checking where the gettext function comes from... libc > checking for cross-compiler... gcc > checking for gcc... (cached) gcc > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed > checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes > checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for ALSA CFLAGS... > checking for ALSA LDFLAGS... -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread > checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.16... found. > checking for snd_ctl_open in -lasound... yes > checking for alsa/pcm.h... yes > checking for alsa/mixer.h... yes > checking for alsa/rawmidi.h... yes > checking for alsa/seq.h... yes > checking for librt... checking for clock_gettime in -lrt... yes > checking for xmlto... yes > checking for ANSI C header files... yes > checking for ncursesw5-config... no > checking for initscr in -lncursesw... no > checking for ncurses5-config... yes > checking for curses library... ncurses > checking for curses header name... <ncurses.h> > checking for curses compiler flags... -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE > checking for curses NLS support... no > checking for sys/types.h... yes > checking for sys/stat.h... yes > checking for stdlib.h... yes > checking for string.h... yes > checking for memory.h... yes > checking for strings.h... yes > checking for inttypes.h... yes > checking for stdint.h... yes > checking for unistd.h... yes > checking panel.h usability... yes > checking panel.h presence... yes > checking for panel.h... yes > checking menu.h usability... yes > checking menu.h presence... yes > checking for menu.h... yes > checking form.h usability... yes > checking form.h presence... yes > checking for form.h... yes > checking for new_panel in -lpanel... yes > checking for new_menu in -lmenu... yes > checking for new_form in -lform... yes > checking for curses linker flags... -lform -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses -ltinfo > checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes > checking for inline... inline > checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes > checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no > checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no > checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no > checking that generated files are newer than configure... done > configure: creating ./config.status > config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in' > > I'd like to get this built and tested. If it works out, i'd like to > contribute my changes to alsa-utils to the repository. > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 12:31 AM Jamey Kirby <kirby.jamey@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> I have been working with alsa for a while. We use it to archive >> content from our radio station. I am using arecord. >> >> Build problem: >> >> 1) I cloned alsa-utils from github >> 2) Spent two hours on Google trying to figure out how to build the darn >> thing. >> 3) I am running Ubuntu Server 18.0 with build-essentials installed. >> 4) I get errors that I do not know how to fix when I try to setup >> ./configure. >> 5) I just need to make a build. What do I need to do? >> >> Feature: >> >> I am adding a feature. In the loop for capture(), when a new file is >> opened, I want to close the old file (when doing continuous >> recording). I added a new CLI parameter -K. When this is set, the >> capture() loop will close the old file before opening the new file. >> >> This is an issue for me for two reasons: >> >> 1) When will i run out of file handles? I capture one hour files >> continuously. After 10 hours, I see that all the capture files are >> still open? >> 2) I need to be notified when the file is closed so that I can do >> post-processing of rht capture. I've tried inotifywait in a script, >> and in another script I tried lsof. lsof works great, but the files >> are open,. See, the main issue is that I need to know when each file >> completes so that I can post process. >> >> Here is my post process script outline: >> >> #!/bin/bash >> >> for f in $HOME/vboxshare/jkirby/newarc/*.raw >> do >> filename=$(basename $f) >> open=$(lsof -t $f | wc -w) >> if [ $open -lt 1 ] >> then >> echo "$filename is closed" >> echo "Do post processing here" >> else >> echo "$filename is open by $open processe(s)" >> fi >> done >> >> If I could close the file before or after the previous file is closed, >> I can do my work. Otherwise, I have no way to know if the file is open >> and being processed or not. >> >> So, I've made the changes, I just need to build the darn thing. >> >> Thanks for any advice or help. >> >> -- >> Jamey Kirby >> Disrupting the establishment since 1964 >> >> This is a personal email account and as such, emails are not subject >> to archiving. Nothing else really matters. >> > > > -- > Jamey Kirby > Disrupting the establishment since 1964 > > *This is a personal email account and as such, emails are not subject to > archiving. Nothing else really matters.* > -- Jamey Kirby Disrupting the establishment since 1964 *This is a personal email account and as such, emails are not subject to archiving. Nothing else really matters.* _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel