Help on updating multimedia/mpeg4ip

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Sun Nov 14 00:25:54 GMT 2004


> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:40:40 -0200
> From: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux at FreeBSD.org>
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> Hi,
> 
> 	A lot of people is having trouble updating their mpeg4ip
> after the recent upgrade to version 1.1
> 
> 	I added a few lines to /usr/ports/UPDATING about it. Let
> me know if you still have problems updating even after applying
> these instructions.
> 
>   mpeg4ip has been updated and broken down into 2 separate ports:
>   mpeg4ip and mpeg4ip-libmp4v2. Furthermore, mpeg4ip now depends
>   on faad. Moreover, faad now depends on mpeg4ip-libmp4v2 rather
>   than on mpeg4ip which avoids a cyclic dependency (mpeg4ip depends
>   on faad which depends on mpeg4ip).
> 
>   If any of the old ports are installed, mpeg4ip will not compile.
>   Therefore,
> 
>   1) Remove old faad and mpeg4ip ports which conflict with new
>   mpeg4ip
> 
>   pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/mpeg4ip*
>   pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/faad*
> 
>   2) Install faad, mpeg4ip and mpeg4ip-libmp4v2 in the following
>   order
> 
>   cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mpeg4ip-libmp4v2 && make install clean
>   cd /usr/ports/audio/faad && make install clean
>   cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mpeg4ip && make install clean
> 
> 	I hope this help out people upgrading. Furthermore, I got
> around a 4.x-STABLE machine so I might have a solution for those
> with problems trying to build the new port under it.
> 
> 	Please, anyone running a FreeBSD 4.x system, try the attached
> patch and let me know if it solves your problems. I'll commit it
> as soon as I receive positive feedback on it.

I m running 5.3, so I could not try the patches, but I did the install
of the lib version first, followed by an update of faad. That did the
trick!

Thanks,
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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