[SOLVED] multimedia/x264 build failure, linker error

[Dave]

On Monday 24 November 2014 23:33:44 Albert Shih wrote:
>  Le 24/11/2014 à 17:02:35+0000, Dave a écrit
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Sorry but I got the same issue. But I'm not sure I understand your answer.
> 
> > pkg delete x264 lists the installed dependances
> 
> So you deinstall all package depends on x264-0.136.2358_4 ?

Sorry, for not getting back sooner.  Real life intervened.
I used pkg delete simply to confirm the list of installed dependencies on x264

> > make deinstall in multimedia/x264
> 
> why you need that ? If you use
> 
>   pkg delete x264-0.136.2358_4

Because saying "Yes" to that would deinstall the dependencies too, which I 
didn't want to do.

> 
> > make install in mulimedia/libx264
> > 
> > make deinstall reinstall clean in the dependant ports, eg mencoder,
> > mplayer, ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-x264
> 
> and those ports don't take automatically the « new » multimedia/libx264 ?

Maybe.  I rebuilt them to be sure they took the correct dependencies.

Anyway, explanations of my workaround aside I see the UPDATING file has the 
correct information now :-)

> Thanks.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> JAS