multimedia/vlc Compile failure on upgrade

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:18:13 +0000
David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> wrote:

> > 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 The apparently out-of-date patch is for all FreeBSD versions 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?
> 

Try running "make config" and disabling XCB.  It looks like xscreensaver
is disabled when XCB is turned off.  That means you also have to disable
XVIDEO, because it requires XCB.

Can't test any of this myself because I'm using CURRENT.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn