[SOLVED] multimedia/x264 build failure, linker error

[Christian Weisgerber]

On 2014-11-25, Andrew Berg <aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu> wrote:

> As I have stated already in this thread, I am trying to get an UPDATING entry
> committed:
>
>   x264 was split into the application and its library. If an application
>   that uses libx264 is updated before x264 itself, multimedia/libx264 will
>   conflict with the old x264 package.
>
>   Delete the existing x264:
>   # pkg delete x264

You can't.  This will also require deleting all installed ports
that depend on x264...

>   And then install the updated x264 and/or upgrade the other applications that
>   depend on libx264.

... and then reinstall all the other applications that depend on
libx264.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de