multimedia/tovid fails to start

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Sun Aug 12 08:52:49 PDT 2007


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.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Andy


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