Hi all, I was busy programming a tool to automatically run some tests to update the FLAC comparison page (http://xiph.org/flac/comparison.html) when I stumbled across some weird behaviour of the flac program. So I compiled from git and it seems that this bug still is there. As I don't have any experience on coding C and don't know which bug-report facility to use, this seemed the right spot.
Anyway, I wanted flac to decode some file to another directory than the current. The man page says I should use --output-prefix for that, but that doesn't seem to work correctly. For example flac -d --output-prefix ../ somefile.flac seems to work fine, just as expected. However, the next example flac -d --output-prefix ../ somedir/somefile.flac doesn't work as expected. the FLAC utility seems to try to decode to the directory ../somedir which doesn't exist. Even using absolute paths do not work. For example flac -d --output-prefix /home/someuser/ /home/someuser/somedir/somefile.flac it seems that it is trying to encode to /home/someuser/home/someuser/somedir/somefile.flac. This can't be the intended behaviour right? Now I think of it, what I expected was similar behaviour to something which I would call --output-directory. The way this is coded looks like a quick fix, but to me it seems this is only useful when one has to use a file in the current working directory or in some special cases where identical directory trees are used. So the question is, is this intended behaviour or a bug? If it is intended, an --output-directory parameter would be useful for scripting. _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
