[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] tests: Add tests for alsa-mixer paths

[David Henningsson]

On 03/22/2013 08:17 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 19:43 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>> On 03/22/2013 07:00 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 15:37 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>>>> It checks all files in the mixer/paths directory and checks
>>>>    - that the file can be parsed without errors
>>>>    - that the file is actually shipped in the makefile
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> After I realized that my previous headset-mic patch did not event ship the new file,
>>>> I also realized I might do the same mistake again.
>>>>
>>>> I guess this could be enhanced later with checking that profile-sets do not point
>>>> to non-existent paths etc, but this will do for now.

I've pushed this and the two other alsa-mixer patches, after fixing the 
first patch to actually ship the headset mic path. (And timeout + 
strlist_free in this patch.)

>>>> +static const char *get_default_paths_dir(void) {
>>>> +    if (pa_run_from_build_tree())
>>>> +        return PA_BUILDDIR "/modules/alsa/mixer/paths/";
>>>
>>> This doesn't work if the build directory is different from the source
>>> directory. Instead of PA_BUILDDIR, this should use PA_SRCDIR, which
>>> doesn't currently exist, but it should be possible to add it.
>>
>> It is copy-pasted from existing pulseaudio code (in alsa-mixer.c, IIRC).
>> If you fix it there, feel free to do so here to.
>
> OK.
>
>> But I do an out-of-source build normally (according to Colin's old but
>> excellent instructions), and my test worked siccessfully. I do remember
>> though that Colin's instructions include making some related symlink.
>
> I tried this:
>
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure
> make check
>
> This test failed.

Referencing:

http://colin.guthr.ie/2010/09/compiling-and-running-pulseaudio-from-git/

Which has a line saying:

ln -s ../../../src/modules/alsa/mixer share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer


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