Hello everybody,
Short version...
If VLC-2.0.5 does not build and you installed libdvbpsi, then try VLC again
after uninstalling libdvbpsi.
Long version...
I have been installing VLC in my last 5 or 6 BLFS systems. I like it. It's
always a big project, but I've always gotten through it. Not this time.
First, I see this after the patch and configure command...
generating modules/**/Makefile.am
.....................................................................
+ echo
+ cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git
+ autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file m4/fcntl-o.m4
Copying file m4/threadlib.m4
Copying file po/Makevars.template
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --force -I m4
configure.ac:28: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete.
You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead.
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete-err.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded
from...
configure.ac:28: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
My understanding is that stuff is related to the sudden removal of a
long-deprecated macro from automake and now we sometimes see these
warnings. Okay, fine. I wasn't able find out what to do about it. VLC would
still continue on with the make command but then fail midway with this...
dtv/en50221.c: In function 'en50221_SetCAPMT':
dtv/en50221.c:2234:17: error: implicit declaration of function
'dvbpsi_DeletePMT' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
dtv/en50221.c: At top level:
dtv/en50221.c:2288:12: warning: 'en50221_OpenMMI' defined but not used
[-Wunused-function]
dtv/en50221.c:2328:12: warning: 'en50221_CloseMMI' defined but not used
[-Wunused-function]
dtv/en50221.c:2356:15: warning: 'en50221_GetMMIObject' defined but not used
[-Wunused-function]
dtv/en50221.c:2381:13: warning: 'en50221_SendMMIObject' defined but not
used [-Wunused-function]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[5]: *** [libdtv_plugin_la-en50221.lo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules/access'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules/access'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules/access'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2
There are a bunch anecdotal things on the Internet about this. Some of them
are not even recent. Some say it's caused by kernel 3.7 and up. Some say
it's the new version libdvbpsi (v1.0.0). And so on. Okay, fine. I spent a
day trying all kinds of things related to those ideas. VLC with the old
libdvbpsi-0.2.2. No. VLC with kernel 3.5.2 from my old LFS 7.2 stash. No. I
tried the previous VLC-2.0.3 which built and installed fine six months ago.
No. Finally, I tried VLC-2.0.5 with no libdvbpsi at all. YES! I still see
the automake stuff with configure, of course. But VLC goes on to build and
install and work. I will find out later what difference not having the
optional package libdvbpsi makes.
I know this post was long. And I don't know what value this has for the
book. But I thought I should say something about it, and I didn't how else
to say it all.
A.Radley
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