[Lame-dev] New lame upstream release?

[Andres Mejia]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>> http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de
>>> DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br
>>>
>>
>> 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
>

And the actual patch.
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/lame.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/alpha-build-fix.patch;h=1aa58535998ed3a26f9b2dd926bae4ae0afe1c30;hb=cbc873db2346e788eca96db7084be73fd1d4aa39

-- 
Regards,
Andres Mejia