[vorbis] file(1) support for Ogg and Ogg/Vorbis

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2002-02-18, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Beni Cherniavksy (cben at techunix.technion.ac.il) wrote:
> > On 2002-02-06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > > Interesting... Magdir/vorbis is not included in the toplevel Makefile.am,
> > > so it's not used in the resulting Makefile, hence it's not in the magic
> > > file.
>
> > It is, at least I saw a `cat Magdir/[a-z]* > magic' (IIRC) line in the
> > makefile.
>
> That line appears in Makefile.std which is not used if you ./configure it.
> The debian/rules file uses ./configure (which is normal) so that line is
> never executed.
>
> The magic_FRAGMENTS definition in the toplevel Makefile.am lists dozens
> of individual files from the Magdir directory, but vorbis is not one of
> the files listed.  Makefile.am is read by automake to produce Makefile.in
> (before the tarball is released), and Makefile.in is read by ./configure
> to create the toplevel Makefile.
>
> The only time Makefile.std would be used is if you were to manually link
> Makefile to Makefile.std, or use "make -f Makefile.std", instead of using
> ./configure.
>
I see...  I checked on a [win]dos system so I didn't have configure
properly installed and just used Makefile.std without thinking...

> > 20011217                (RC3 - oggenc, oggdrop)
> > 20011231                (RC3 - BQoggdrop)
> >
> > I need confirmations for the dates of RC2 and up, especially the differing
> > RC3 date - some explanations was posted previously but can someone explain
> > them better?  Is there any difference in the output or should both be
> > regarded as official RC3 dates?
>
> I have Ogg files with both datestamps in them.  As far as I know, both
> 20011217 and 20011231 are the same encoder library; the former was the
> date when Monty merged all the RC3 vorbis changes into CVS, and the
> latter was when RC3 was officially released.  There were vorbis-tools
> changes in between those two dates, but I think vorbis was not modified
> in any significant way.
>
So I both should just be called RC3?

> Corrections are welcome, if I'm mistaken.
>


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Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
                 (also scben at t2 in Technion)
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