Arthur Radley wrote: > Originally posted in the wrong list by mistake. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Arthur Radley*<[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:33 PM > Subject: VLC-2.0.5 shenanigans > To: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > Hello everybody, > > Short version... > > If VLC-2.0.5 does not build and you installed libdvbpsi, then try VLC > again after uninstalling libdvbpsi. > > > > Long version... > > I have been installing VLC in my last 5 or 6 BLFS systems. I like it. > It's always a big project, but I've always gotten through it. Not this > time. > > First, I see this after the patch and configure command... > > > > generating modules/**/Makefile.am > ..................................................................... > + echo > + cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git > + autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4 > autoreconf: Entering directory `.' > autoreconf: running: autopoint --force > Copying file ABOUT-NLS > Copying file m4/fcntl-o.m4 > Copying file m4/threadlib.m4 > Copying file po/Makevars.template > autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --force -I m4 > configure.ac:28 <http://configure.ac:28>: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': > this macro is obsolete. > You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead. > /usr/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete-err.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is > expanded from... > configure.ac:28 <http://configure.ac:28>: the top level > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 > aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1 > autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 > > > > My understanding is that stuff is related to the sudden removal of a > long-deprecated macro from automake and now we sometimes see these > warnings. Okay, fine. I wasn't able find out what to do about it. VLC > would still continue on with the make command but then fail midway > with this... > > > > dtv/en50221.c: In function 'en50221_SetCAPMT': > dtv/en50221.c:2234:17: error: implicit declaration of function > 'dvbpsi_DeletePMT' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] > dtv/en50221.c: At top level: > dtv/en50221.c:2288:12: warning: 'en50221_OpenMMI' defined but not used > [-Wunused-function] > dtv/en50221.c:2328:12: warning: 'en50221_CloseMMI' defined but not > used [-Wunused-function] > dtv/en50221.c:2356:15: warning: 'en50221_GetMMIObject' defined but not > used [-Wunused-function] > dtv/en50221.c:2381:13: warning: 'en50221_SendMMIObject' defined but > not used [-Wunused-function] > cc1: some warnings being treated as errors > make[5]: *** [libdtv_plugin_la-en50221.lo] Error 1 > make[5]: Leaving directory > `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules/access' > make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory > `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules/access' > make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules/access' > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5/modules' > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/files5/blfs/svn/sources-hubble/vlc-2.0.5' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > > There are a bunch anecdotal things on the Internet about this. Some of > them are not even recent. Some say it's caused by kernel 3.7 and up. > Some say it's the new version libdvbpsi (v1.0.0). And so on. Okay, > fine. I spent a day trying all kinds of things related to those ideas. > VLC with the old libdvbpsi-0.2.2. No. VLC with kernel 3.5.2 from my > old LFS 7.2 stash. No. I tried the previous VLC-2.0.3 which built and > installed fine six months ago. No. Finally, I tried VLC-2.0.5 with no > libdvbpsi at all. YES! I still see the automake stuff with configure, > of course. But VLC goes on to build and install and work. I will find > out later what difference not having the optional package libdvbpsi makes. > > I know this post was long. And I don't know what value this has for > the book. But I thought I should say something about it, and I didn't > how else to say it all. > > A.Radley > > >
The thing to do is to revert automake version to 1.12 (1.12.6 is the last).make uninstall in automake-1.13 works. Regards -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
