[Lame-dev] New lame upstream release?

[Andres Mejia]

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,
>
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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