The Linux port of the Monkey's Audio library has a bug in it, which causes a crash on 64-bit platforms when a program tries to retrieve certain tag info. XMMS2 is one program that crashes on 90% of .ape files. The fix is small, and I sent it to the maintainer last month but I never heard back. Since it causes a segfault, is it possible to get the patch included in Portage until it makes it into the official distribution? --- src/MACLib/APEDecompress.cpp.orig 2006-06-01 19:00:58.000000000 +1000 +++ src/MACLib/APEDecompress.cpp 2010-01-26 19:51:29.743347230 +1000 @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ *****************************************************************************************/ intptr_t CAPEDecompress::GetInfo(APE_DECOMPRESS_FIELDS Field, intptr_t nParam1, intptr_t nParam2) { - int nRetVal = 0; + intptr_t nRetVal = 0; BOOL bHandled = TRUE; switch (Field)
I have just heard back from the author who has released version 3.99.4.5.5 which includes this fix. So once this new version gets included in Portage this bug will no longer be a problem.
+*mac-3.99.4.5.6 (03 Mar 2010) + + 03 Mar 2010; Daniel Pielmeier <billie@gentoo.org> -mac-3.99.4.5.ebuild, + +mac-3.99.4.5.6.ebuild, metadata.xml: + Version bump. Fixes bug #304299. Remove old. Add myself to maintainers This should be fixed in the new version. Thank you very much for the report.
