multimedia/libquicktime missing lqt_ffmpeg.*

[Michael Johnson]

On 12/8/06, Randy Pratt <bsd-unix at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 20:35:49 -0500
> "Michael Johnson" <ahze at ahze.net> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Its a subtle issue for me since I almost never use quicktime for
> any purpose.  I would have never noticed it except for a package
> build failure.
>
> I did check http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=multimedia&portname=libquicktime&wildcard= but it showed
> the package as 'building'.  I don't understand why it builds there
> as a package since it relies on multimedia/ffmpeg.  Obviously,
> something is different.

The reason it builds in tinderbox is ffmpeg-devel is the default
ffmpeg used in libquicktime unless ffmpeg is already installed
before libquicktime is built.

>
> Anyway, thank you for the quick response and I'm willing to do any
> testing/patching if needed.
>
> Randy
>
>
> > > System: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE
> > > Ports: Updated 7 Dec, 2006
> > >
> > > Randy
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