After I updated my ppc64 system today I found all sound/video players using gstreamer couldn't play mp3 files properly. I recompiled many related packages and finally came to libmad: everything worked again when I updated it to the version 0.15.1b-r6. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge libmad 2. totem mp3file.mp3 3. Actual Results: totem launched up and the file played, but only produced noise. Expected Results: sound/music After the libmad-0.15.1b-r2 is updated to libmad-0.15.1b-r6 with ~ppc64 keyword, the players go working again. emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/10.0/64bit-userland, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 ppc64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-ppc64-PPC970,_altivec_supported-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4, 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc64 -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc64 -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_US zh_CN" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl aiglx alsa altivec asf aspell automount berkdb browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr chardet cjk cli consolekit cpdflib cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dba dbus dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdr eds emerald encode esd exif extras faac faad2 fb ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gd-external gdbm gimpprint glitz gmp gnome gnomecd gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal ibm iconv imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k lcms ldap mad mbox mng modules mp3 mpeg mpg mudflap mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppc64 ppds pppd python qt qt3support readline reflection samba saslradeon sdl secure-delete session slang spell sqlite ssl svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff unicode v4l v4l2 vcd vidix vorbis webkit wma xanim xcb xcomposite xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="aoa" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US zh_CN" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I take it as you want -r6 stabilized, so lets do that...
All good x86. =media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b-r6
ppc64 done
amd64 done
x86 stable, thanks David
alpha/arm/ia64/sh/sparc stable
ppc stable
Stable for HPPA and closing.