[Lame-dev] New lame upstream release?

[Rogério Brito]

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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