multimedia/vlc Compile failure on upgrade

[David Southwell]

> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:17:21 +0000
> 
> David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:12:11 +0000
> > > 
> > > David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> wrote:
> > > > I posted about this failure some time ago but have had no useful
> > > > response. I jhave also not heard from the maintainer so I thought
> > > > another posting might be helpful. I understand others have a similar
> > > > problem.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks in advance for any assistance
> > > 
> > > Which version of FreeBSD are you using?
> > > 
> > > The posix_spawn_file_actions stuff didn't appear until 8.0.
> > > 
> > > There's a patch under files for older versions of FreeBSD, but it looks
> > > like the patch doesn't match this version of vlc.
> > 
> > Version is Freebsd 7.2 p3
> > 
> > Somone also reported the identical failure with 7.3
> 
> The apparently out-of-date patch is for all FreeBSD versions < 800040.

I have cc'd this to the maintainer...
Any chance of a "good" patch?

David


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