Re: xine-lib hg fails to build on Fedora 25

On 28/12/2016 15:57, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On 28/12/2016 15:15, Chris Rankin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The latest repository code does compile on Fedora 25. Are you trying to
>> compile a tarball? Perhaps you need to rerun "autogen.sh" in order to
>> regenerate the autoconf script first?
>>
> You're right, I'm trying to build from a tarball I'm generating from an
> hg checkout, and I omitted this info, sorry about that.
> I'd rather build from an "official" tarball, but it seems neither
> Torsten nor Petri do have enough privileges to make that happen and
> Darren is not around for quite some time...
>
> Here's how I generate the tarball :
> - Go into the hg checkout directory
> - Remove .cvsrelease file
> - Run ./autogen.sh
> - Run make dist
> - Build an rpm from the tarball using mock.
>
> The spec file does run autoreconf. It is available here, but I have some
> local changes waiting for a proper xine-lib 1.2.8 release :
> https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/free/xine-lib.git/plain/xine-lib.spec
>
> It worked until a couple days/weeks ago, but I'll start from a fresh hg
> checkout and retry to make sure.
>
Ok, so the issue was on my side. I cloned a fresh checkout, generated a 
new tarball and all is well now. Maybe an issue after the recent hg 
troubles you encountered ? Anyway, sorry for the noise and thanks for 
the help :-)

I'd still like to get an official release, but that's a different matter...

Cheers,
Xavier


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