vlc-2.1.0.4 fails with libssh2 enabled

[William Grzybowski]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:56 AM, William Grzybowski <william88 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> It looks like it is an openssl problem.
>> Have you tried installing the openssl package from ports?
>>
> William,
>
> Thanks for the very quick response!
>
> I had not, but I just gave it a try and it allows vlc to configure, build,
> and run. But this is not the right solution. Makefile does not have a direct
> dependency on openssl at all, only libgcrypt and libssh2. Since both are
> happy with the base openssl, vlc should build just fine!

Obviously! I never said it was :)

> In fact, after building vlc with openssl, it still does not use it. It uses
> the base version.since that is what openssh2 uses. It's just that pkg-config
> can't find openssl.pc since the base version does not create one (or any .pc
> files).  there is never a run dependency on it:
> # ldd /usr/local/bin/vlc
> /usr/local/bin/vlc:
>     libvlc.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libvlc.so.9 (0x2c41c000)
>     libvlccore.so.7 => /usr/local/lib/libvlccore.so.7 (0x2c634000)
>     libidn.so.17 => /usr/local/lib/libidn.so.17 (0x2c8f8000)
>     libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x2cb2a000)
>     libdbus-1.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x2ce26000)
>     libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x2d078000)
>     libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x2d299000)
>     libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2d4bc000)

It is a plugin, not in the vlc binary, check
/usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/access/libaccess_sftp_plugin.so.

> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Since the vlc port was updated last week I have been unable to update. I
>> > have selected libssh2 in the configuration, but when configure is run,
>> > it
>> > ways libssh2 is not found.
>> > checking for SFTP... no
>> > configure: error: Library libssh2 needed for sftp was not found
>> > ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
>> > Please report the problem to multimedia at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and
>> > attach
>> > the "/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-2.1.0/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. a
>> > /usr/sbin/pkg_info
>> > -Ea).
>> > *** [do-configure] Error code 1
>> >
>> > Looking into the log I find:
>> > configure:31648: checking for SFTP
>> > configure:31655: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libssh2"
>> > configure:31658: $? = 0
>> > configure:31672: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libssh2"
>> > configure:31675: $? = 0
>> > configure:31689: result: no
>> > Package libssl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libssl.pc'
>> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> > Package 'libssl', required by 'libssh2', not found
>> > Package 'libcrypto', required by 'libssh2', not found
>> >
>> > But pkg-config has no problem with libssh2:
>> > # pkg-config --exists --print-errors libssh2
>> > # echo $?
>> > 0
>> > #
>> >
>> > configure for this sftp is a bit convoluted for my poor sh skills, but I
>> > can't figure out why it's failing. It makes it through the tests at
>> > 31675,
>> > but then files the library test. But I manually execute that test and it
>> > passes.
>> > # pkg-config --libs "libssh2"
>> > -L/usr/local/lib -lssh2  -Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
>> > # echo $?
>> > 0
>> > #
>> >
>> > Anyone with good sh ability want to look into this? In the interim, I
>> > have
>> > re-installed vlc without support for sftp.
>> >
>> > If I don't se anything on this in te next day, I'll open a PR, but I'm
>> > hoping that this is a trivial tweak that can be quickly be fixed by
>> > someone.
>>
>> --
>> William Grzybowski
>> ------------------------------------------
>> Curitiba/PR - Brasil
>
>



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