On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 04/17/10 23:48, Doug Barton wrote: >> I recently updated -current, and all of my ports, and am now getting the >> following message when I try to watch an avi file encoded with xvid: >> >> No suitable decoder module: >> VLC does not support the audio or video format "XVID". Unfortunately >> there is no way for you to fix this. >> >> Recompiling vlc, xvid, and numerous other things didn't help. Any >> suggestions? > > I have found the problem, it's zlib. In r206708-9 delphij updated zlib > to version 1.2.4.3 and did some magic with the symbols. I just regressed > my system to r206707 and now the same vlc does xvid just fine. > > When I booted the new -current yesterday (after the libz changes) I had > to rebuild and reinstall openbox and libxml2 because the latter had some > sort of unresolved symbol problem related to libz. When I regressed the > system today and had to do the same thing I got this error: > /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `gzo...@zlib_1.2.4.0' > > (Note, this libxml2 that generated this error was compiled against the > NEW libz, so it's not the error that I was seeing previously.) > > In looking over the things in /usr/lib that may be related I see that > gpac-libgpac-0.4.5_4,1 has the gzopen symbol, and I did not recompile > that when I was trying to get vlc to work last night so it may be the > magic bullet. > > My plan at this point is to re-upgrade to the latest -current, record > the error I get from libxml2 when recompiling openbox, and then try > recompiling stuff until I find the one that does the trick. Worst case > scenario I do 'portmaster -f vlc' but that constitutes 175 ports, which > would take a while.
Yeah... that's what I thought it was. vlc does some interesting work initializing codecs I think where it disguises runtime linker issues, etc with pieces that tie into vlc. Not really happy about that, but after the issue with zlib was identified 2~3 weeks ago, it was easy to clean up... The other issues with zlib are pretty well known, and the overall upgrade as I and others mentioned a few weeks back is large as it's use is pervasive in 3rd party software. HTH, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"