[Flac-users] Problems with configure

[martin at kfib.org]

I compiled flac today and at first I didn't succeed very well. The
binary was built and all, but each time I tried encode a wav-file, the
only result was:

> flac 1.0.4, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Josh Coalson
> flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
> welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.
>
> Segmentation fault

I tried to disable the asm-optimisations but that didn't help at
all. I pondered the fact that configure did warn me that I didn't have
ogg, id3 or xmms installed (which is only partly true, I didn't have
the devel-RPM:s installed), and wondered if this might be the
cause. Therefore in the good old tradition of trial and error, I tried
with installing libogg-devel and voilá! No more segfaulting flac! May
I suggest that configure treats the lack of ogg a bit more serious
than just writing a warning? ;>

Oh, since I'm already reporting, another thing I had a problem with is
that the build fscks up if you have support for xmms and you aren't
building the binaries as root. I prefer to not build all the software
as root and thus usually use the PREFIX-argument. When I ran make
install, it bugged out because it couldn't write to
/usr/lib/xmms/Input/ (Natürlich!). Now, thankfully I have the
root-password to this machine (since it's my workstation at home), but
if I hadn't had it (like at work), it would've been much harder to
build the xmms-module.

And so, another thing. Is there any flac123 (like ogg123's
mpg123-lookalike) or are anyone working on one?

Finally, encouragement (mandatory): GOOD WORK! I haven't toyed with it
much yet, but so far I really like what I've seen! It will definitely
be useful to compress my liverecordings. :>

-- 
Martin Persson           martin at kfib.org
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