Building multimedia/vlc on amd64

[Jonathan Chen]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 08:10:23PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Jonathan Chen pí?e v pá 28. 12. 2007 v 21:35 +1300:
> 
> > When I try to build vlc on 7-STABLE/amd64, the build fails with the
> > following error:
> > 
> >     [...]
> >     c++ -Wsign-compare -Wall -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -pipe -pthread -pthread -o libvlcplugin.so libnpvlc_a-vlcshell.o libnpvlc_a-vlcplugin.o libnpvlc_a-npolibvlc.o libnpvlc_a-npovlc.o libnpvlc_a-nporuntime.o libnpvlc_a-npunix.o -shared -pthread -shared -fpic -fPIC -pthread /usr/local/lib/libintl.so /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -pthread  -L/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/fake//usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib ../src/libvlc.a ../modules/demux/liblive555.a ../modules/audio_filter/converter/libdtstofloat32.a -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 /usr/local/lib/libXt.so /usr/local/lib/libSM.so /usr/local/lib/libICE.so /usr/local/lib/libX11.so /usr/local/lib/libXau.so /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so -lrpcsvc /usr/local/lib/libhal.so /usr/local/lib/libintl.so /usr/local/lib/libdbus-1.so -lrt /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -L/usr/local/live/UsageEnvironment -lUsageEnvironment -L/usr/local/live/groupsock -lgroupsock -L/usr/local/live/BasicUsageEnvironment -lBasicUsageEnvironment -L/usr/local/live/liveMedia -lliveMedia -ldts -lm   -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> >     /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libdts.a(parse.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> >     /usr/local/lib/libdts.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> >     gmake[2]: *** [libvlcplugin.so] Error 1
> >     gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.6d/mozilla'
> >     gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >     gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.6d'
> >     gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> >     *** Error code 2
> > 
> >     Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc.
> >     *** Error code 1
> > 
> >     Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc.
> > 
> > This error doesn't happen on 7-STABLE/i386, and it looks like the
> > obvious fix is to build libdts.a objects with -fPIC. Any chance of an
> > update that makes it so?
> 
> You cannot build relocatable .a libraries. The correct fix here is to
> link libdca (former name libdts) dynamically. All it should take is to
> replace -ldts with -ldca in the compiler arguments.
> 
> Funny thing is that the port patches for that. And it compiles nicely on
> my machine. How old is your portstree?

It's about 3 days old. I got it to build by unchecking the "DTS"
option in vlc, but I would like that option back. I'll try re-csup'ing
and give that a go.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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