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Quick note to anyone who, like me, is a fan of Creative's MuVo line of mp3 players.
As of Solaris Nevada b88, my v100 mounts without having to open a terminal :)

Not sure about the other models, but this one follows the same design of the earlier ones.
My first one was a USB 1.0 with 128Mb of space - incredible how little that sounds now.

I haven't followed the putback logs for 88 that closely, but I'd guess 6682222 was the one.

Had a couple of problems compiling LAME under Solaris Express b77 with the SunStudio compilers, so I thought I'd document the workarounds here.

I downloaded the source from Sourceforge, unpacked and ran ./configure. No problems here.
But ./make complained about __inline. I looked around a bit and found this post with the following patch:

*** gain_analysis.c.orig        Tue May 31 20:05:09 2005
--- gain_analysis.c     Tue May 31 20:06:32 2005
*************** 
*** 247,252 ****
--- 247,257 ----

/* returns GAIN_ANALYSIS_OK if successful,
GAIN_ANALYSIS_ERROR if not */

+ #ifdef __SUNPRO_C
+ #pragma inline (fsqr)
+ #define __inline
+ #endif
+

  static __inline double fsqr(const double d)
  {  return d*d;
  }

Another ./make revealed a different problem.
Searched around and found a solution here, patching the source with:

--- frontend/brhist.c.orig      Sun Sep 24 15:53:31 2006
+++ frontend/brhist.c   Mon Nov 20 14:02:55 2006
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
 void
 brhist_disp(const lame_global_flags * gf)
 {
-    int     i, lines = 0;
+    int     i, brh_lines = 0;
     int     br_hist[BRHIST_WIDTH]; /* how often a frame size was used */
     int     br_sm_hist[BRHIST_WIDTH][4]; /* how often a special frame size/stereo mode commbination was used */
     int     st_mode[4];
@@ -456,13 +456,13 @@
         if (most_often < br_hist[i])
             most_often = br_hist[i];
         if (br_hist[i])
-            ++lines;
+            ++brh_lines;
     }

     for (i = 0; i < BRHIST_WIDTH; i++) {
         int     show = br_hist[i];
 #ifdef RH_HIST
-        show = show && (lines > 1);
+        show = show && (brh_lines > 1);
 #endif
         if (show
             || (i >= brhist.vbr_bitrate_min_index

./make now runs smoothly.
The executable is under the lame-3.97/frontend folder.