On 07/04/2013 01:02 PM, Mykyta Iziumtsev wrote:
>
> I'm currently intensively working with libmad, and incidentally came across
> libmad build instructions in BLFS/CLFS. There is a problem with x86-64
> compilation which is not properly addressed.
>
> libmad -- is (considerably) old project (last commit around year 2004). So,
> configure.ac grew old, and don't support x86-64. As a result, if you run
> ./configure on x86-64 system -- it will complete without errors, but then
> compilation will fail with gcc complaining about "-fforce-mem". This is
> because ./configure incorrectly "guesses" target triplet.
>
> In BLFS this issue is not addressed at all (if I get it correctly), and in
> CLFS issue is addresses, but incorrectly. The later uses straight approach
> -- remove "-fforce-mem". That will make libmad compile -- but at the
> expense of significant quality degradation.
>
>
> The proper fix is to update configure.ac (and configure.in, of course, by
> running autoconf). This patch is "elaborated" from Ubuntu package:
>
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 0541425..c7151b6 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -294,6 +230,7 @@ if test -z "$FPM" && test "$GCC" = yes
>   then
>       case "$host" in
>          i?86-*)     FPM="INTEL"  ;;
> +       x86_64*)    FPM="64BIT"  ;;
>          arm*-*)     FPM="ARM"    ;;
>          mips*-*)    FPM="MIPS"   ;;
>          sparc*-*)   FPM="SPARC"  ;;

The compilaton still fails after autoconf && ./configure if you don't 
remove -fforce-mem.

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Igor Živković
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