ogg vorbis advice

[Kerry Hoath]

Yes the 2.91 egcs was bad news it had bugs in the optimizer
and some math functions were just plain broken.
You want a later gcc or some precompiled rpms.
Somebody could probably build  you some static libraries and binaries in the
interum; this would require options to configure but wouldn't
be hard. Static binaries don't rely
on shared libraries and if the code was built on a box with a good compiler
you wouldn't have problems with vorbis.
They're not joking about egcs 2.91; it broke speak_freely as well at one point
and I recall it having problems with certain sections of the
kernel source.

Regards, Kerry.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:33:12AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> I have the Richard Stalman files Frank mentioned, and now I need to
> decode/play them. I also have the relevant tarballs from www.vorbis.org,
> but they say the version 2.91.xx compilers are bad news for compiling this
> software. Two questions:
> 
> 1. Is that true? I have the egcs 2.91.66 compiler, so should I  abandon my
> interest in compiling this stuff before upgrading my compiler?
> 
> and
> 
> 2. Can someone direct me to some precompiled binaries to play/decode ogg
> vorbis formats?
> 
> Mucho thanks -
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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