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hApy

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-04-13

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alsa-driver

the PKGBUILD fails for me, the alsa-driver-0.9.4/utils/convert_isapnp_ids script tries to use /usr/bin/awk but on my system (and I assume other arch systems) awk is in /bin/awk.

I've heard other people have problems with the build too. For those of course the temporary solution is "ln -s /bin/awk /usr/bin/awk"

Hapy.

orelien

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From: France

Registered: 2002-12-05

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Re: alsa-driver

A workaround is also to use gawk instead of mawk (gawk uses a /usr/bin/awk symlink)
My 2 cents

neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: alsa-driver

Hi,

A workaround is also to use gawk instead of mawk (gawk uses a /usr/bin/awk symlink)
My 2 cents

as a preference there is no symlink to /usr/bin/awk. Some other PKGBUILD's
(self roasted) fail on similar things (eg. install is in /bin/install some makefiles
want it /usr/bin/install)

Shouldn't be such symlinks created in PKGBUILD itself (and deleted
afterwards)?

bye neri

apeiro

Daddy

From: Victoria, BC, Canada

Registered: 2002-08-12

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Re: alsa-driver

Well, it's kind of a kludge either way.  The reason we leave awk in /bin/awk is so the rc scripts can use it during boot-up, even if /usr isn't mounted yet.

If some dumber Makefiles assume a /usr/bin location for a program, you can usually fix them pretty easily with some sed lovin'

# sed -i 's|/usr/bin/awk|/bin/awk|g' Makefile

It's a little cleaner than creating/removing symlinks during the build, since this method doesn't touch the builder's host system.

hApy

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-04-13

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Re: alsa-driver

oooOh.. Shiny!

good point judd.

Hapy.