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alsa-lib package

  1. Bug #1174429
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1174429

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Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote : Re: [Bug 1174429] Re: error:unknown type name ”u_int8_t”when building

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 06:22:47PM EST, David Henningsson wrote:
> Hmm, looking deeper at this issue, it seems that we're patching
> asoundlib.h, but asoundlib.h is dynamically generated during build (from
> asoundlib-head.h and other files), so our patched file is overwritten,
> which is why asoundlib.h ends up not having the patch.
>
> Do you think this warrants an SRU?

Possibly, as this could very well bite other, and possibly proprietary, third parties who try and build against ALSA.

Luke