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Hi all,<div><br></div><div>The OSXCompile wiki page instructions fail when trying to build from a tarball (vlc-1.0.3.tar.bz2 is what I am using currently, although v1.0.1 does the same). The wiki (http://wiki.videolan.org/OSXCompile) states</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">Download the <a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_media_player" title="VLC media player" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 51, 187); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">VLC media player</a> <a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/GetTheSource" title="GetTheSource" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 51, 187); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">source code</a> (using <a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/Git" title="Git" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 34, 170); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Git</a>) as described on the <a href="http://wiki.videolan.org/GetTheSource" title="GetTheSource" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 51, 187); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">"Get the source"</a> page or get a recent source tarball."</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">However, tarballs fail with the error</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><div>REVISION=`git describe --always` && \</div><div> cat ./extras/package/macosx/Info.plist | \</div><div> sed "s/#REVISION#/$REVISION/g" > ./tmp/extras/package/macosx/Info.plist</div><div>fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git</div><div>make[2]: *** [VLC.app] Error 128</div><div>make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1</div><div>make: *** [all] Error 2</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps the wiki page should be amended (either add instructions that do allow building from tarballs, or remove reference to them and include workable build system with the tarballs themselves)...?</div><div><br></div><div>Neil.</div></span></font></div> <br /><hr />Use Hotmail to send and receive mail from your different email accounts. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394592/direct/01/' target='_new'>Find out how.</a></body>
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