On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 18:23 -0700, Praveen Kumar wrote: > Praveen Kumar wrote: > > I am running OpenSolaris 2008.05 snv_93 with Sun Studio and most other > > development tools installed. I have managed to compile GNU Emacs 23 > > successfully. > > > > I am trying to compile gst-ffmpeg (0.10.4) and I am getting an error[1] > > during the configure stage. Anyone managed to compile it successfully on > > OpenSolaris? I am seeing some posts about successful compilation on > > SXDE. I am not sure how it is different. > > > > Lack of multimedia capability is a real blocker for me to wipe out > > GNU/Linux from my hard-drive. Right now, I have to reboot into GNU/Linux > > to play any media. Any help is appreciated. > > > > [1] - http://opensolaris.pastebin.ca/1073577 > > However I was able to get gst-ffmpeg 0.10.3 successfully compiled using > GNU ld. For some reason, even after using the --with-gnu-ld switch, > gst-ffmpeg still was using /usr/ccs/bin/ld (that was symlinked to > /usr/bin/ld). I didn't know how to tell it to use GNU ld. So, I pointed > /usr/ccs/bin/ld to /usr/gnu/bin/ld. If I use Sun ld, I get an error > message "relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections". > > Use GNU ld: > $ cd /usr/ccs/bin > $ pfexec rm -f ld > $ pfexec ln -s ../../gnu/bin/ld > > I actually don't recommend this one. But I didn't know any other quick > way. Please note that this might affect anything that needs Sun ld in > future. If you want to restore, do the following or make a backup before > you do the above step. > > $ cd /usr/ccs/bin > $ pfexec rm -f ld > $ pfexec ln -s ../../bin/ld > > Build gst-ffmpeg: > $ wget > http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-ffmpeg/gst-ffmpeg-0.10.3.tar.bz2 > $ tar -jxvf gst-ffmpeg-0.10.3.tar.bz2 > $ cd gst-ffmpeg-0.10.3 > $ ./configure --prefix=/full/path/to/your/install/dir > $ make > > Copy the library to gstreamer directory: > $ pfexec cp ./ext/ffmpeg/.libs/libgstffmpeg.so /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/ > > After this, Totem plays media files supported by ffmpeg. > > I am going to spend some time latter this evening to troubleshoot > gst-ffmpeg 0.10.4 configure issue. I will post if I make any progress on it.
I had the same problems as you and solved it exactly the same way. Maybe we can fix the configure issues with 0.10.4. - twisti _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
