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Message-ID: <lku6mdwwfhufyap2kjwxrzfoka4wfjaldq2xqver4ktnuuqd3t@wicnoorkz3wm>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:23:44 +0530
From: Abdul Rahim <abdul.rahim@...ahoo.com>
To: perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com, broonie@...nel.org, shuah@...nel.org
Cc: linux-sound@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kselftest/alsa: add silent flag to reduce noise

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 05:11:30AM GMT, Abdul Rahim wrote:
> When ALSA is not installed on the users system, the error:
> 
> "Package alsa was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `alsa.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'alsa', required by 'virtual:world', not found"

these errors are being printed by `pkg-config` and the last line is
irrelevant in our context
> 
> is printed 3 times, which generates unnecessary noise.
> Hence, Remove unnecessary noise using `--silence-errors` on LDLIBS
> assignment, so the message is printed only once.

or should we return error if user does'nt have alsa and move to the next
test?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abdul Rahim <abdul.rahim@...ahoo.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/alsa/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/alsa/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/alsa/Makefile
> index 25be68025290..cd022fc869fb 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/alsa/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/alsa/Makefile
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>  #
>  
>  CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags alsa) $(KHDR_INCLUDES)
> -LDLIBS += $(shell pkg-config --libs alsa)
> +LDLIBS += $(shell pkg-config --silence-errors --libs alsa)
>  ifeq ($(LDLIBS),)
>  LDLIBS += -lasound
>  endif
> -- 
> 2.46.0
> 

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