Re: ffmpeg & svn -- odd issue?

On Aug 18, 2006, at 17:21, Nathan Ziarek wrote:

> I am attempting to install ffmpeg (also on an intel machine; didn't
> see any problems online, but if there are, I'd appreciate the heads
> up) and received the error that it needs subversion to download the
> source. I installed svn from the Metissian package, and it seems to
> work fine. I tested it by downloading the source of ffmpeg myself (svn
> checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg). Seemed to get
> everything. svn is in /usr/local/bin and that is in the PATH.
>
> When I attempt to install ffmpeg through DP, though, I still get  
> this error:
>
> --->  Fetching ffmpeg
> Error: The subversion tool (svn) is required to fetch
> svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk.
> Error: Please install the subversion port before proceeding.
> Error: Target com.apple.fetch returned: Subversion check out failed
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> Any ideas why this is failing. It is like DP doesn't see svn...but as
> I said, svn seems to work just fine.


DarwinPorts is designed to use its own components and not other  
things you may have installed. So you should do as it says and  
install the subversion port within DarwinPorts.