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mikebrady / alac

Apple Lossless Codec and Utility with Autotools
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Makefile.am: error: required file './README' not found #13

Closed Vaskyy closed 1 month ago

Vaskyy commented 1 month ago

Hello there, i installed shairport-sync and it works flawlessly.

I assume i get better results here when configuring with ALAC? like more kHz? IMG_3857small

Now i wanted to make ALAC working, but i cant proceed in ur tutorial. After i use the "autoreconf -fi" command i get this:

libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
configure.ac:40: installing './compile'
configure.ac:20: installing './missing'
Makefile.am: error: required file './README' not found
codec/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

And "make" doesnt work afterwards: make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Did i do something wrong?

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1 Operating System: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Kernel: Linux 6.1.21-v7+

mikebrady commented 1 month ago

Thanks for this.

Two parts to the answer:

  1. The ALAC library will not result in better decoding -- the built-in decoder is just as good. Unfortunately, both have bugs when dealing with invalid inputs.
  2. Thanks for the bug report -- fixed now.
Vaskyy commented 1 month ago

Damn thanks for the quick response :) So it doesn't bring any benefits using the alac library? May I ask what's it being used for then?

mikebrady commented 1 month ago

It was really done as an experiment, so see if it would make any difference, but as far as we can see and hear, it didn’t. 😕