[flac-dev] flac-1.3.1pre1

Erik de Castro Lopo
Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:02:06 -0000

LRN wrote:

> MSYS2 + i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-4.9.1 -> builds ok, passes all tests,
although
> there were some strange messages about compression ration being > 1.0 in
two
> seek tests.

Yes, that is benign. FLAC is good at compression music, but not so good at
compressing random noise which is used in a couple of the tests.

> I did have to apply some compatibility patches, as usual, but nothing
major.
> Patches are attached.

Err, why are these patches needed? I thought FLAC compiled correctly
on all major platforms with all major compilers.

Erik
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