multimedia/tovid fails to start

Andy Fawcett andy at athame.co.uk
Sun Aug 12 08:50:07 PDT 2007


On Sunday 12 August 2007 18:13:16 Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:29:03 -0500, Andy Fawcett <andy at athame.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed multimedia/tovid successfully, and when I tried to run
> > it it
> > failed to start
> >
> > [tap at ping ~]$ tovid
> > Found 2 installations of tovid on your system!
> > I won't run until there is only one of me :)
> > Installed versions:
> >    /usr/local/bin/tovid
> >    /usr/X11R6/bin/tovid
> > Exiting...
> > [tap at ping ~]$
> >
> > I'm guessing this is fallout from the xorg modular change, where
> > /usr/X11R6 is
> > a symlink to /usr/local. The function doing the checking is in
> > tovid-init,
> > but I haven't yet worked out how to fix it up for dealing with this case.
> >
> > For now, I've removed the check altogether.
>
> Can you test this patch?
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/patch-src_tovid-init.in
>
> Put it in tovid/files/ and let me know how it goes. Thanks for report.

Yep, your patch is basically the same as my local modification. It works fine.

Cheers,

Andy


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