[libdvdcss-devel] PowerPC (Ubuntu)

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 08:11:02PM -0500, Israel wrote:
> On 05/13/2014 08:36 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Israel wrote:
> >> On 05/12/2014 05:25 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>> On 2014-05-12 18:22, Israel wrote:
> >>>> So, I have taken to compiling PPC from source.
> >>>> I have compiled it (though I needed to comment out a line for it to
> >>>> configure).
> >>> What did you (have to) change?
> >> I think it was line 12 in configure.ac
> >> LT_INIT([win32-dll])
> > How did you change that line and what was the problem you were trying to fix?
> >
> > That line is a pretty standard libtool init call, so I very much wonder
> > how anything could go wrong there...
> >
> > Diego
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Thanks for not top-posting.  Next up: trimming your quotes.

> I am not entirely sure... it may have been another line.  But I
> commented out a line (i.e. I added # at the beginning)  It wouldn't
> compile and said that there was an error on that line.  I am not using
> windows, so I just assumed it was having trouble since there are no
> windows libraries on that computer.  I commented it out, and configure
> went fine, as well as 'sudo make install'
> The libraries installed, but didn't work.

Small wonder, you commented out the libtool init call, which is
responsible for building working shared libraries.

> Is there something I need to add (somewhere) for powerPC.  As I said
> initially I am on GNU/Linux (specifically Lubuntu 14.04).
> If you want me to recompile it, and post the terminal output from a
> fresh (non tampered) version I can.

We need exact error messages, not your vague recollection, so yes.

Diego