Bug#436330: vkeybd: FTBFS: error: linux/awe_voice.h: No such file or directory

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:21:58 +0100,
Daniel James wrote:
> 
> Hi Lucas,
> 
> > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on i386.
> 
> > oper_awe.c: In function 'seq_open':
> > oper_awe.c:146: error: 'SAMPLE_TYPE_AWE32' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> In the Makefile from the original source package, it says:
> 
> # device selections -- multiple avaialble
> # to disable the device, set value 0 (do not comment out!)
> #
> USE_AWE = 1
> 
> I believe this relates to proprietary sequencer support for the 
> seriously obsolete Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA sound card, dating from 1994:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_AWE32
> 
> According to the oldest entry on this changelog:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/v/vkeybd/vkeybd_0.1.17a-2/changelog
> 
> vkeybd was split from the awe package, which was removed from sid in 
> 2002, along with the OSS kernel drivers.
> 
> Although the AWE32 is supported by ALSA now, I think it's quite safe to 
> change the Makefile to read USE_AWE=0 and update the description of the 
> package to remove the reference to AWE32 support.
> 
> The alternative would be to make the linux-source-2.6.* package a build 
> dependency of this vkeybd package; I don't know if that's acceptable in 
> Debian policy terms. It would keep the retro sound hardware enthusiasts 
> happy :-)

FYI, the fixed package 1.0.17b was already released...


Takashi