failed to build mencoder (mplayer), missing header files

[Garrett Cooper]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> I am trying to install mencoder (or mplayer) on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 from
> fresh portstree and getting this error about missing header file:

[ ... ]

> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer.
>
> png is installed and header file exists in my system:
> # find /usr/local/ -name png.h
> /usr/local/include/libpng/png.h
> /usr/local/include/png.h
>
> I found post about similar problem with sugested fix / hack
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2008-July/008856.html
> but it doesn't solved my problem.
>
> I get it compiled after following change in Makefile of mencoder + mplayer
>
> post-configure:
>        @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's#-pthread#${PTHREAD_LIBS}#g ; \
>                s| -I.../libavutil| -I.../libavutil -I/usr/local/include|g' \
>                        ${WRKSRC}/config.mak
>
>
> As I am not C programmer, I don't know if this is right fix or I did
> something bad, but "it works for me" ;).

The problem is that the CFLAGS are being passed in incorrectly.
-I/usr/local/include *should* be in there.
-Garrett