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@dreieck, I would be happy to take over maintainership but two questions.

1. Do you have any contact with the tinyalsa project other than via github?

2. As you are an AUR maintainer of various packages have you had any problems with upstream versus AUR patches either from the projects themselves or from AUR maintainers?

Regards!

@seawright,

Ah, you mean another issue.

I am actually not using tinyalsa, do you want to take over maintainership?

Regards!

@dreieck, Please read my last comment again. I am referring to a segmentation fault with tinyplay if the soundfile does not exist.

I realise it is an upstream problem but I raised an issue over two years ago which has been ignored. I can email you with my suggested fix if you would be willing to consider it.

Regards!

@seawright,

ahem, I have workearounded the PKGBUILD.

@dreieck, I doubt that your upstream issue report will be actioned. I raised an issue Tinyplay Segfault #252 in February 2024 which is yet to be acknowledged.

I realise that it should be dealt with upstream but due to projects lack of interest would you be willing to apply the patch for this issue in PKGBUILD?

Regards!

@seawright, thanks for reporting.

Workedaround. And created ↗ upstream issue report.

Regards!

Package does not build using makepkg -sirc

==> Starting build()...
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
  Compatibility with CMake < 3.5 has been removed from CMake.

  Update the VERSION argument <min> value.  Or, use the <min>...<max> syntax
  to tell CMake that the project requires at least <min> but has been updated
  to work with policies introduced by <max> or earlier.

  Or, add -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to try configuring anyway.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

but does build after adding -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to cmake options in PKGBUILD

--- PKGBUILD.bak 2026-06-23 15:41:23.627290049 +0100
+++ PKGBUILD    2026-06-23 15:54:21.739940040 +0100
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='/usr' \
     -DTINYALSA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON \
     -DTINYALSA_BUILD_UTILS=ON \
-    -DTINYALSA_USES_PLUGINS=ON
+    -DTINYALSA_USES_PLUGINS=ON \
+    -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5
   cmake --build "${srcdir}/build"
 }

Suggest amending PKGBUILD as per above diff.

Adopted the package, fixed issues.

Here is a patch about what needs to be changed to the PKGBUILD:

--- PKGBUILD.orig   2022-10-15 19:27:10.479040079 +0200
+++ PKGBUILD    2022-10-15 19:26:45.249040868 +0200
@@ -18,3 +18,3 @@
 pkgver() {
-    git -C "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}" describe --tags | sed 's/-/.r/;s/-/./g'
+    git -C "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}" describe --tags | sed 's/-/.r/;s/-/./g' | sed 's|^[vV]||'
 }
@@ -22,2 +22,4 @@
 build() {
+    CFLAGS+=' -Wno-error=sign-compare'
+    export CFLAGS
     cmake -S "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}" -B "${srcdir}/build" \

Fails to build with utils/tinywavinfo.c:188:31: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘int’ and ‘unsigned int’ [-Werror=sign-compare]:

[ 95%] Building C object CMakeFiles/tinywavinfo.dir/utils/tinywavinfo.c.o
/[...]/utils/tinywavinfo.c: In function ‘analyse_sample’:
/[...]/utils/tinywavinfo.c:188:31: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘int’ and ‘unsigned int’ [-Werror=sign-compare]
  188 |                 for (i = 0; i < num_read / bytes_per_sample; i += channels) {
      |                               ^
compilation terminated due to -Wfatal-errors.
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Adding to the build() function

    CFLAGS+=' -Wno-error=sign-compare -Wno-fatal-errors'
    export CFLAGS

does mitigate this issue for me.

Thanks for maintaining!