FLAC audio port in FreeBSD: boom. crash. core dump.

[Herbert]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:50:09PM -0700, BSD baby wrote:
> On a virgin FreeBSD 4.8 system, I've tried to use the FLAC audio compression port:
> 
> /usr/ports/audio/flac
> 
> Using no special options on a .wav file:
> flac mysong.wav
> 
> I get "Illegal instruction (core dumped)".
> 
> I've tried it on 3 different FreeBSD 4.8 boxes, and many different .wav files.
> 
> Has anyone gotten it to work?

Of course!

% flac cdda.wav

----[snip]----

options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3
cdda.wav: wrote 39604764 bytes, ratio=0.598

% uname -rs
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE

% uname -rs
FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE

Maybe you are building world/kernel/ports with the wrong optimisations
(/etc/make.conf).

Herbert