> > I'm building amarok 3.5.13. I
> receive this message:
> >
> > Looking for linux/inotify.h - not found
> >
> > The header file does exist at
> /usr/include/linux.inotify.h.
> >
> > Any ideas for the message?
> >
> > Darrell
> 
> Most distros use sys/inotify.h instead (glibc builtin
> IIRC).  I would
> consider the incomplete inotify checks in Amarok a bug and
> update them
> from the tdelibs inotify checks I recently added.

Fortunately nothing complicated was needed. I changed linux/inotify.h to sys/inotify.h and the cmake scripts then found the header file. I don't know why the scripts could not find linux/inotify.h.

Here is the patch, unless you want me to submit through bugzilla:

===============================================
diff -urN amarok/ConfigureChecks.cmake amarok.new/ConfigureChecks.cmake
--- amarok/ConfigureChecks.cmake  2011-05-03 00:45:53.000000000 -0500
+++ amarok.new/ConfigureChecks.cmake  2012-01-10 01:32:02.000000000 -0600
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@

 check_include_file( stdint.h HAVE_STDINT_H )
 check_include_file( systems.h HAVE_SYSTEMS_H )
-check_include_file( linux/inotify.h HAVE_INOTIFY )
+check_include_file( sys/inotify.h HAVE_INOTIFY )

 check_function_exists( statvfs HAVE_STATVFS )

diff -urN amarok/amarok/configure.in.in amarok.new/amarok/configure.in.in
--- amarok/amarok/configure.in.in 2011-08-21 16:54:15.000000000 -0500
+++ amarok.new/amarok/configure.in.in 2012-01-10 01:31:51.000000000 -0600
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@
 # BEGIN INOTIFY CHECK
 ###############################################################################

-AC_CHECK_HEADERS(linux/inotify.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/inotify.h)

 if test x"$ac_cv_header_linux_inotify_h" = x"yes"; then
     AC_DEFINE(HAVE_INOTIFY, 1, [have inotify])
diff -urN amarok/amarok/src/collectiondb.cpp amarok.new/amarok/src/collectiondb.cpp
--- amarok/amarok/src/collectiondb.cpp  2011-08-17 15:59:49.000000000 -0500
+++ amarok.new/amarok/src/collectiondb.cpp  2012-01-10 01:31:53.000000000 -0600
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 #undef HAVE_INOTIFY  // NOTE Disabled for now, due to stability issues

 #ifdef HAVE_INOTIFY
-    #include <linux/inotify.h>
+    #include <sys/inotify.h>
     #include "inotify/inotify-syscalls.h"
 #endif

diff -urN amarok/config.h.in amarok.new/config.h.in
--- amarok/config.h.in  2010-08-11 22:24:39.000000000 -0500
+++ amarok.new/config.h.in  2012-01-10 01:31:58.000000000 -0600
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 /* Define if you have libz */
 #undef HAVE_LIBZ

-/* Define to 1 if you have the <linux/inotify.h> header file. */
+/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/inotify.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_LINUX_INOTIFY_H

 /* Define to 1 if you have the <memory.h> header file. */
diff -urN amarok/configure.in amarok.new/configure.in
--- amarok/configure.in 2011-08-21 16:54:15.000000000 -0500
+++ amarok.new/configure.in 2012-01-10 01:31:58.000000000 -0600
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@
 # BEGIN INOTIFY CHECK
 ###############################################################################

-AC_CHECK_HEADERS(linux/inotify.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/inotify.h)

 if test x"$ac_cv_header_linux_inotify_h" = x"yes"; then
     AC_DEFINE(HAVE_INOTIFY, 1, [have inotify])
===============================================


Darrell