RE: [Openvortex-dev] make errors while compliling.

[Richard Brown]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:06, J. Gordon Wolfe wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:03, Richard Brown wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm running gentoo1.4r4, fully emerged and am trying to compile alsa
for
> > my Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2 (rev 254)
> >
> > I've downloaded the alsa folder from the cvs and run
> >
> > If someone could tell me how to sort this out I would be very
grateful.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Richard.
> 
> Well it looks to be breaking on the spin_lock() and spin_unlock()
call.
> My Gentoo system (kernel 2.4.20-ck6, 2.6.0-test1) compiles just fine
> through those, so I'm not sure what your deal is.  However, I've
always
> been suspicious of those calls.  It seems everywhere else I see a
> spin_lock() its parameter is passed by reference, and those aren't
(even
> in the driver code in the alsa tutorial, which the driver looks to be
> largely based on).  So maybe you want to try and apply the attached
> patch?  It works fine for me here, but then so did the original
driver.
> 

Thanks for the patch, I applied and the compile went fine, I'm using 
The linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 kernel at the moment.

Unfortunately I ended up confusing myself hopelessly installing it into
the kernel, so I've used oss for now. 

I'll check back when it starts appearing in portage.

Thanks again

Richard