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@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From 10587067fcf5b05e7fa5a84c38238dbffd079c4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@rootcommit.com>
+Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 11:12:34 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] alsactl: fix build when in subdirectory
+
+From: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>
+
+create the conf directory as part of the edit recipe
+
+Closes: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/pull/311
+Signed-off-by: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>
+Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
+Upstream-Status: Backport [10587067fcf5b05e7fa5a84c38238dbffd079c4f]
+---
+ alsactl/Makefile.am | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/alsactl/Makefile.am b/alsactl/Makefile.am
+index 48b7c7a..c8729e0 100644
+--- a/alsactl/Makefile.am
++++ b/alsactl/Makefile.am
+@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ endif
+ edit = \
+ extratest=$$(echo ' $(ALSACTL_UDEV_EXTRATEST)' | sed -e 's/__/ /g' -e 's/^ $$//'); \
+ args=$$(echo ' $(ALSACTL_UDEV_ARGS)' | sed -e 's/__/ /g' -e 's/^ $$//'); \
++ mkdir -p conf; \
+ $(SED) -r -e 's,@sbindir\@,$(sbindir),g' \
+ -e 's,@mydatadir\@,$(mydatadir),g' \
+ -e 's,@daemonswitch\@,$(ALSACTL_DAEMONSWITCH),g' \
similarity index 96%
rename from meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.2.14.bb
rename to meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.2.15.bb
@@ -24,14 +24,15 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[udev] = "--with-udev-rules-dir=`pkg-config --variable=udevdir udev
PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = "--enable-xmlto, --disable-xmlto, xmlto-native docbook-xml-dtd4-native docbook-xsl-stylesheets-native"
# alsa-utils specified in SRC_URI due to alsa-utils-scripts recipe
-SRC_URI = "https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/utils/alsa-utils-${PV}.tar.bz2"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0794c74d33fed943e7c50609c13089e409312b6c403d6ae8984fc429c0960741"
+SRC_URI = "https://www.alsa-project.org/files/pub/utils/alsa-utils-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
+ file://0001-alsactl-fix-build-when-in-subdirectory.patch"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d3183d2ed2d69e9143c5beb97036267c3fdabfe8bfbea8bc6863f17b1f0b568e"
# On build machines with python-docutils (not python3-docutils !!) installed
# rst2man (not rst2man.py) is detected and compile fails with
# | make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'alsaucm.1', needed by 'all-am'. Stop.
# Avoid this by disabling expicitly
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-rst2man"
+# EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-rst2man"
inherit autotools gettext pkgconfig manpages