configure error in multimedia/transcode [SOLVED]

[David J Brooks]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 12:53:56 pm David J Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 05:23:45 am David J Brooks wrote:
> > ERROR: requirement failed: cannot compile ffmpeg/avcodec.h
> > ffmpeg/avcodec.h can be found in the following packages:
> >   FFMpeg  http://www.ffmpeg.org/
> >
> >
> > Please see the INSTALL file in the top directory of the
> > transcode sources for more information about building
> > transcode with this configure script.
> >
> > ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> > Please report the problem to multimedia at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and
> > attach the
> > "/usr/ports/multimedia/transcode/work/transcode-1.0.2/config.log"
> > including
> > the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good
> > idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system
> > (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`).
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/transcode.
>
> The problem is an incorrect header file. Apparently multimedia/lives
> installed multimedia/ffmpeg-devel on top of multimedia/ffmpeg which
> overwrote the avcodec.h. Deinstalling ffmpeg-devel and reinstalling ffmpeg
> allows transcode to configure and compile without error.

Whatever you changed in the Makefile just then worked too. Transcode will now 
build even witth ffmpeg-devel installed. Go figure.

David
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