multimedia/libquicktime missing lqt_ffmpeg.*

[Michael Johnson]

On 12/8/06, Randy Pratt <bsd-unix at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I was building a set of packages and noticed that libquicktime would
> fail to build a package if multimedia/ffmpeg was installed instead
> of multimedia/ffmpeg-devel.
>
> The libquicktime-0.9.9 would build and install with ffmpeg but
> apparently it did not build:
>
>         lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.la
>         lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.so
>
> since the package build failed with:
>
>   --->  Backing up the old version
>   tar: lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.la: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
>   tar: lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.so: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
>   pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
>
> I switched from the old multimedia/ffmpeg to multimedia/ffmpeg-devel:
>
>   portupgrade -fo multimedia/ffmpeg-devel multimedia/ffmpeg
>
> The libquicktime package built fine using ffmpeg-devel.  I checked
> another box and the same situation of missing lqt_ffmpeg.* existed
> since it also used the old multimedia/ffmpeg.  Perhaps this is
> something local that causes the missing files.
>
> Can anyone else confirm missing /usr/local/lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.*
> files when using multimedia/ffmpeg as a dependency for libquicktime?
>

Thanks for reporting this, multimedia/ffmpeg is starting to show it's age
and developers that use FFmpeg are starting to only support use of
CVS versions of FFmpeg. I'll either patch it or disable FFmpeg in the next
day or so.

> System: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE
> Ports: Updated 7 Dec, 2006
>
> Randy
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