Audiofile library -endedness problems?

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

Hi,

Am I right that libaudiofile still has a problem with byte-endedness that means 
that esd can't handle 16-bit WAV samples still?

This is the reason people using Solaris on SPARC, etc, can't get sound out of 
Enlightenment and Gnome, yes?

Someone said that this had been broken fairly recently, and I've been watching 
the Audiofile ChangeLog over at http://gdev.net/changelogs/audiofile.html - but 
so far I've seen no sign of a fix, and the last time I tried to grab a new 
version and compiled it, the resulting library crashed out =O(

Any news on this?  Especially whether it'll get fixed in time for everything 
getting released?

And have any SPARC users had any luck getting this to work, other than by 
winding down to 8-bit samples?

Ta,

Mark.