Bug#781026: RFP: bs1770gain -- normalize the loudness of audio and video files to the same level

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

I just tried to build my own version of the bs1770gain program using
'./configure && make', and scared and surprised to discover that the
first thing the build did was to fetch the source code for sox from
sourceforge.  This tell me the build need to be carefully examined and
rewritten before it can be safely integrated into Debian.

I stopped the build when I discovered this, as I do not like build
systems that fetch random code from the net.  Checking the makefile,
this download is not the only one:

pere@minerva:~/src/debian/bs1770gain-git$ grep wget Makefile 
        wget -O $@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/$(SOXV)/$(@F)/download
        wget -O $@ http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/files/$(@F)
        wget -O $@ http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/$(@F)
#       wget -O $@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/flac/files/flac-src/$(LIBFLAC)-src/$(@F)/download
        wget -O $@ http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/$(@F)
        wget -O $@ http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/$(@F)
        wget -O $@ pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/$(@F)
        wget -O $@ http://ffmpeg.org/releases/$(@F)
        wget -O $@ www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/$(@F)
pere@minerva:~/src/debian/bs1770gain-git$ 

Mentioning it here in case someone find time to package this for Debian.
I guess it is possible to get it to use the system libraries, with some
work.  The build system is not using autoconf/automake.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen