On 09 Aug 2001 11:26:06 -0400, Mike McGuire wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:07:19PM +0100, James Green wrote: > > I've been battling to make 'vcr' work for some time now, and it's > > moaning about a lack of libmp3lame.so at runtime. > > > > The library is allegedly found in lame, which isn't in Debian. I > > downloaded the source tarball, created a deb from it, only to find it > > only creates libmp3lame.a, not .so. I looked at converting, and it looks > > fairly horrible. > > Hm. I *think* there's a configure option to build it... but looking > through the Makefile it doesn't seem to get built by just 'make'.
The configure option --enable-shared is on by default, and thus probably is broken someplace along the way. > You could try building it again if you don't still have it around, > and then try 'make libmp3lame/libmp3lame.so', that's in there. cyberstorm:/usr/src/lame/lame-3.89# make libmp3lame/libmp3lame.so make: *** No rule to make target `libmp3lame/libmp3lame.so'. Stop. cyberstorm:/usr/src/lame/lame-3.89# make libmp3lame make: Nothing to be done for `libmp3lame'. cyberstorm:/usr/src/lame/lame-3.89# make libmp3lame.so make: *** No rule to make target `libmp3lame.so'. Stop. > > The library is apparently also in avifile, which is broken: > > > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > avifile: Depends: libqt2.2-mt (>= 2:2.2.3-3) but it is not installable > > E: Sorry, broken packages > > Eh. You running testing? I don't think it's in stable, and in sid it > needs libqt3. And it sounds like something that would happen with > testing. :) You could use dpkg-deb and just extract libmp3lame.so > from it tho. I'm running sid, and I already have qt ii libqt2-mt 2.3.1-6 Qt GUI Library (runtime threaded version). This is proving rather frustrating :( Any other ideas, anyone? James.
