Bug 219010

Summary:	alsa-tools does not build on ppc
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tim Jackson <rpm>
Component:	alsa-tools	Assignee:	Tim Jackson <rpm>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	extras-qa, shigorin
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	238953, 179260

Description Tim Jackson 2006-12-09 10:05:04 UTC

Building on ppc fails with:

/builddir/build/BUILD/alsa-tools-1.0.12/sb16_csp/cspctl.c:100: undefined
reference to `__invalid_size_argument_for_IOC'

(see jobs 22627 and 22645)

I *suspect* this might be because some (all?) of the tools don't actually make
sense on PPC, because it may be that it's physically impossible to use them on
PPC hardware. (I could be wrong here though; I know almost zero about PPC). Some
web searching hasn't immediately thrown up any answers. 

However, in any case, if you use PPC and require alsa-tools (or know more about
this problem), please comment on this bug.

Comment 1 Mamoru TASAKA 2008-03-16 13:09:20 UTC

gentoo's workaround:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86064#c2

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2008-03-16 17:59:10 UTC

The problem is that the SNDRV_SB_CSP_IOCTL_LOAD_CODE ioctl has a size which is
too large for many architectures, including PPC. This should probably be done
differently.

Gentoo's workaround of just disabling sb16_csp on PPC seems reasonable, given
that the kernel side isn't built there either.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 02:29:42 UTC

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 4 Tim Jackson 2008-05-19 21:57:19 UTC

Thanks for the pointer.

Fixed and in the update queue for F-8 and F-9, also built in rawhide. Feedback
welcome:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/pending/alsa-tools-1.0.15-5.fc8
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/pending/alsa-tools-1.0.16-4.fc9
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=618542

Comment 5 Michael Shigorin 2009-12-17 13:14:43 UTC

JFYI, it seems to build on ALT Linux/ppc:
$ rpm -qlvp files/ppc/RPMS/alsa-tools-1.0.18-alt1.ppc.rpm | grep cspctl
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root             8208 Nov 13  2008 /usr/bin/cspctl

Not sure if it's worth bothering, maybe to clean up the messy spec a little bit.