Re: vlc 1.1.0 on rhel5 working

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Axel Thimm <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Paulo,
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:36:41PM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > Hi, Axel
> >
> > I managed to run vlc 1.1.0 on rhel 5. However,
> > it is necessary to upgrade/supply 5 new dependencies:
> >
> >
> > 1)
> http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/xcb-proto-1.1-1.fc8.src.rpm<http://people.atrpms.net/%7Epcavalcanti/srpms/xcb-proto-1.1-1.fc8.src.rpm>
> >
> > 2)
> >
> http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/xorg-x11-xtrans-devel-1.0.3-5.fc8.src.rpm<http://people.atrpms.net/%7Epcavalcanti/srpms/xorg-x11-xtrans-devel-1.0.3-5.fc8.src.rpm>
> >
> > 3) http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/libxcb-1.1-2.el5.src.rpm<http://people.atrpms.net/%7Epcavalcanti/srpms/libxcb-1.1-2.el5.src.rpm>
> >
> > 4)
> http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/xcb-util-0.3.1-2.el5.src.rpm<http://people.atrpms.net/%7Epcavalcanti/srpms/xcb-util-0.3.1-2.el5.src.rpm>
> >
> > 5)
> http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/libX11-1.1.3-4.el5.src.rpm<http://people.atrpms.net/%7Epcavalcanti/srpms/libX11-1.1.3-4.el5.src.rpm>
>
> I had merged your previous specfile with mine and then proceeded on a
> similar path. I tried to remove the python >= 2.5 requirements, and
> managed to do so with xcb-proto and libxcb but failed with xcb-util.
>

You need to use xcb-util 3.0.1, and use a patch for gcc 4.1 (inline
assembler code problem). This is the only way.



>
> The above scheme replaces libX11, isn't there a way w/o doing that?
> Maybe a python25 package?
>

Without replacing libX11 the compilation does not even start. It complains
about a missing xcb-x11.



>
> > Now, it is up to you, build vlc 1.1.0 for rhel 5 or not.
>
> I have a build with revamped dependencies but w/o xcb. I'm not sure
> this is worth anything, so I'm going to just place it in bleeding for
> testing purposes.
>
>

Without xcb there will be no video.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ