[XviD-devel] Some minor issues in xvid 1.1.3

[Michael Militzer]

Hi,

thanks for the pointer. Note that the missing semicolon for IA64 is already
fixed on CVS head for a while. For the other issues you mentioned, fixes
have been committed to CVS.

The noexec-stack patch is interesting but seems to be gcc specific. We try
to keep the code generic so it can be compiled with (hopefully) arbitrary
c-compilers...

Regards,
Michael


Quoting Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de>:

> [This is my second try. The first try from monday is still not on the
> list. Maybe I have to register for my messages to be accepted?]
>
> Dear xvid-developers,
>
> I have encountered some minor trivial issues in the current version of
> the xvid sources:
> - The 'build/generic/configure' script checks for a minimum patch
> version of '34' of the nasm compiler, expecting a version number (>=
> 0.98.34). Please note that the current version of nasm is (0.99.06) and
> thus reporting a patch version <= 34. As a consequence the libraries are
> built without asm optimizations although a recent nasm is installed.
> - The perl script in 'examples/bench_list.pl' is missing the
> '#!/usr/bin/perl' shebang line; please see attached 'shebang.patch'.
> - There is a semicolon missing in 'src/quant/quant.h' leading to a build
> failure on ia64; please see attatched 'ia64.patch'.
> - The tarball still contains 'config.log' and 'config.status' in
> 'build/generic'.
> - The Gentoo distribution is also applying some interesting patches
> which can be found here:
> http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/gentoo/media-libs/xvid/files/
> and here:
> http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/xvid-1.1.2-noexec-stack.patch.bz2
>
> I'll be happy to see these changes in the next xvid release. ;)
>
> Thank you very much for your effort!
>
> Cheers,
> Fabian
>
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