Hello.
When trying to convert APE files to WAV in Mandriva 2005 LE using the command "mac", I usually get an "undefined" error.

Example:

$mac CDImage.ape CDImage.wav -d
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v3.96b8) © Matthew T. Ashland ---
Decompressing ...

Error: -1: undefined

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But, other times, it works, I don't know why.
I'll appreciate any help.
Thanks.

tried an up-to-date version (3.99 here)?

Do you know where to find mac-3.99 RPM package for Mandriva or the source code?
I can't find them!

i have archives of most of it here:

http://xmixahlx.dyndns.org/gnu-linux/files/audio/lossless/

although you can find it at sourceforge, also


later

i could only send you a statically compiled binary of 3.99 if you trust me enough.

i think i built it using some patches from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ckage_id=136177 applied against the mac sdk? i can't remember. this and the fact that compiling[1] or even getting a non-win32 binary is such a hassle is the reason i only use this binary to "free" ape files and compress them using a more versatile codec.

edit: heh, just what i was looking for, thanks.

[1] the code of course doesn't compile on anything else than linux and the command line interface is completely arcane and non-unix-like.

I guess there's few precompiled packages for distros due to Matthew T. Ashland's homemade, not-compliant-with-anything license. The source code can anyway be found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/
ported by SuperMMX. His site is here:
http://supermmx.org/linux/mac/
but I think that site is often unreachable from outside of China.
Some info can also be found roundabout here.

oh, well if you are talking about binaries, there are debian binaries over at rarewares/debian.


later

in some other format than .rpm or .deb?

I tried to compile mac-3.99 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/
but I get this error:

bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -s -O3 -Wall -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DBUILD_CROSS_PLATFORM -all-static -o mac Console.o ../../src/MACLib/libmac.la
g++ -s -O3 -Wall -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DBUILD_CROSS_PLATFORM -static -o mac Console.o ../../src/MACLib/.libs/libmac.a
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [mac] Error 1

But libstdc is installed!!!
??

[Opportunistic OT, but slightly related.]

Is there a source of wavegain that will compile under GCC 3.3 (and/or 4), alternately a working ebuild? This is one of the few Rarewares-projects that I'm missing on my Gentoo.

I tried filing a bugreport and got this reply.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100873

i didn't have a problem compiling wavegain for rarewares.

i'm pretty sure i used 3.3 at the time.


later

Don't know if you're the one who upped the extra ebuild /diff-file, but thanks to whomever that was.

I've discovered what is wrong. A recent glibc in Gentoo introduced some extra memory-allocation checks and now some programs fail because of memory bugs. Unfortunately this also applies to wavegain

But since it still works well enough to calculate (though not apply) the gain-values I can handle it. I can always do the actual gaining with another application.

Thanks.

This must another thing, otherwise you could 'bypass' extra checks by 'MALLOC_CHECK_=0', afaik.

You're right it seems. Tried the malloc and the problem persist.
But as I'm just a end-user with no coding skills whatsoever and not wanting to appear too demanding, I'm just grateful for what is already done