[Lame-dev] New lame upstream release?

[Andres Mejia]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/7/29 Rogério Brito <rbrito at ime.usp.br>:
>> Hi there.
>>
>> Just an update to the LAME-side of the discussion, LAME just got
>> accepted (with the replacement of the files by Apple) in Debian's
>> unstable distribution, by inclusion of the following patch of Andres:
>>
>> 2011/7/28 Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>:
>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3381198&group_id=290&atid=300290
>>
>> This means that:
>>
>> * LAME is available for a wider range of people, including its
>> function as an MP3 library;
>> * The inclusion process has followed an auditing process regarding to
>> Free Software compliance (which, in fact, required our change of some
>> of top level files and of the portableio.[ch] in the frontend
>> subdirectory);
>> * The availability of builds for many architectures, including some
>> which may have not seen too much testing so far, like mips, mipsel,
>> sparc, and s390;
>> * The revelation of a problem (race condition) in the parallel build
>> process of our source code.
>>
>> I will commit some of the changes in the next few days. One question
>> here: is it worth rewriting the portableio.[ch] to be more portable,
>> as the name implies? I would love to know if he have broken the build
>> in platforms like, say, OS/2 or AmigaOS, which I've heard that people
>> use/used...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
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>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I just sent 6 patches against Rogério's git tree origin branch at
> github. The first patch didn't make it through yet, but it's
> essentially a patch that removes all files autogenerated by autotools.
>
> Second patch would be useful as it will allow AM_PATH_GTK to be
> defined without having to have a copy of gtk-1.2, which many people
> will likely not have anymore.
>
> Third patch changes how the debian directory is included in the
> generated tarball using 'make dist'. This makes more sense, since
> nothing is built from the debian directory when lame is being built.
>
> Fourth patch is useful as it will include libtool macros in the source
> tree. The only file in the m4 directory that should be tracked via CVS
> is m4/acinclude.m4.
>
> Fifth patch is the patch fixing parallel builds on i386.
>
> And the sixth patch replaces the portableio code.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Andres Mejia
>

Here's yet another patch.
This patch will fix builds on the alpha architecture. It does involve
the use of the new portableio code however.

-- 
Regards,
Andres Mejia