[flac-dev] flac-dev Digest, Vol 87, Issue 10

Sat Feb 4 12:02:50 PST 2012

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>   1. Re: Moving CPP hackery (JonY)
>   2. Re: Moving CPP hackery (Erik de Castro Lopo)
>   3. Re: Meet the new maintainer (Erik de Castro Lopo)
>   4. Re: Moving CPP hackery (JonY)
>   5. Re: Moving CPP hackery (Erik de Castro Lopo)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0800
> From: JonY <jon_y at users.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Moving CPP hackery
> To: flac-dev at xiph.org
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> On 2/4/2012 13:20, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > Hi all, especially David Yeo and JonY,
> >
> > I've started moving compiler specific CPP hacker into a separate file
> > at include/share/compat.h.
> >
> > Eventually I hope to be able to move all of the require CPP hackery
> > for $random_compiler into this file and have any C file which needs
> > any compiler specific tweak to include this new compatibilty header.
> >
> > My belief is that one this CPP hackery is all in one place, it will
> > be far easier to modify and keep correct.
> >
> > So, I would be very greatful if David Yeo and JonY could test current
> > git HEAD and provide a patch if anything breaks. I will hold off
> > on any further hacking for a couple of days to give you guys time to
> > test this.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Looks like there are some missed defines in the test_libFLAC++. Attached
> patch fixes that.
>
> Also, wsock32 usage is deprecated, on Win7, wsock32 forwards everything
> to ws2_32, suggest changing to -lwsock32 to -lws2_32 in configure.ac.
> Additionally, using -lwsock32 on Cygwin is wrong. Fix in config.txt.
>
> I also suggest changing all the switch-case statements in configure.ac
> to AS_CASE.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 20:45:25 +1100
> From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com>
> Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Moving CPP hackery
> To: flac-dev at xiph.org
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> JonY wrote:
>
> > Looks like there are some missed defines in the test_libFLAC++. Attached
> > patch fixes that.
>
> Good one. Thanks.
>
> > Also, wsock32 usage is deprecated, on Win7, wsock32 forwards everything
> > to ws2_32, suggest changing to -lwsock32 to -lws2_32 in configure.ac.
> > Additionally, using -lwsock32 on Cygwin is wrong. Fix in config.txt.
>
> For that I think I'd prefer to purge all use of ntohl. Will make that
> a high priority.
>
> Erik
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> Erik de Castro Lopo
> http://www.mega-nerd.com/
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:49:26 +1100
> From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com>
> Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Meet the new maintainer
> To: flac-dev at xiph.org
> Message-ID: <20120204214926.4a1fe7168b0e9b1b1b9e531b at mega-nerd.com>
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> Ralph Giles wrote:
>
> > Er, which results are available at
> https://mf4.xiph.org/jenkins/job/flac/
> >
> > Currently the build is failing on 'make distcheck'
>
> Ralf,
>
> What platform does this build on? Is it more than one?
>
> Erik
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> Erik de Castro Lopo
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:09:20 +0800
> From: JonY <jon_y at users.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Moving CPP hackery
> To: flac-dev at xiph.org
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> On 2/4/2012 17:45, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > JonY wrote:
> >
> >> Looks like there are some missed defines in the test_libFLAC++. Attached
> >> patch fixes that.
> >
> > Good one. Thanks.
> >
> >> Also, wsock32 usage is deprecated, on Win7, wsock32 forwards everything
> >> to ws2_32, suggest changing to -lwsock32 to -lws2_32 in configure.ac.
> >> Additionally, using -lwsock32 on Cygwin is wrong. Fix in config.txt.
> >
> > For that I think I'd prefer to purge all use of ntohl. Will make that
> > a high priority.
> >
> > Erik
>
> Does AC_C_BIGENDIAN work well? I assume if a system is not big endian,
> its small endian. Are mid endian systems still around?
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 06:34:16 +1100
> From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com>
> Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Moving CPP hackery
> To: flac-dev at xiph.org
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> JonY wrote:
>
> > On 2/4/2012 17:45, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > > JonY wrote:
> > >
> > >> Looks like there are some missed defines in the test_libFLAC++.
> Attached
> > >> patch fixes that.
> > >
> > > Good one. Thanks.
> > >
> > >> Also, wsock32 usage is deprecated, on Win7, wsock32 forwards
> everything
> > >> to ws2_32, suggest changing to -lwsock32 to -lws2_32 in configure.ac.
> > >> Additionally, using -lwsock32 on Cygwin is wrong. Fix in config.txt.
> > >
> > > For that I think I'd prefer to purge all use of ntohl. Will make that
> > > a high priority.
>
> Just so you know, I have a patch to remove ntohl() in my queue.
>
> > Does AC_C_BIGENDIAN work well?
>
> Its ok, but I'll probably replace it with an m4 macro from libsndfile
> which is quite a bit better.
>
> > I assume if a system is not big endian, its small endian.
>
> Usually called little endian.
>
> > Are mid endian systems still around?
>
> I've not heard of one any time in the last 10 years.
>
> Erik
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> Erik de Castro Lopo
> http://www.mega-nerd.com/
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