multimedia/vlc Compile failure on upgrade

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:17:21 +0000
David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> wrote:

> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:12:11 +0000
> > 
> > David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> wrote:
> > > I posted about this failure some time ago but have had no useful
> > > response. I jhave also not heard from the maintainer so I thought
> > > another posting might be helpful. I understand others have a similar
> > > problem.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance for any assistance
> > 
> > Which version of FreeBSD are you using?
> > 
> > The posix_spawn_file_actions stuff didn't appear until 8.0.
> > 
> > There's a patch under files for older versions of FreeBSD, but it looks
> > like the patch doesn't match this version of vlc.
> Version is Freebsd 7.2 p3
> 
> Somone also reported the identical failure with 7.3
> 

The apparently out-of-date patch is for all FreeBSD versions < 800040.

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Gary Jennejohn