Minimyth build – Alsa


The build system is coming along. Various reports of problems so far have been easy to fix although one report of really poor results on suse may be much more difficult to address. The goal is to make the MiniMyth build system run on any linux platform on which mythtv works. As of now, RH9 is the only confirmed system it works on. I'm pretty sure it will build on debian too, though I won't be able to try that till I get a Debian box running at work again.

Mandrake will probaby work – Larry is working on that platform. fedora will also probably work but I don't have one of those running either. Again, I may be able to test that at work over time.

Tonight I fixed a few minor issues:

  • Inadvertent exit() left in after tests for prerequisites
  • Made alien required only if viaaudiocombo is being used
  • Made alsa the default option and viaaudiocombo the override.

I'm now working on getting the rest of the alsa build to complete. The main drivers are built and so are the libraries. These need to be installed somehow before the utils can be generated. Another case of requiring sudo access. I also need to determine which bits of both the drivers and libs need to be installed and where they need to be installed. This might be really easy after a sudo make install is run.

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