[vlc-devel] No more static theora library provided in latestlibtheora packages leads to a vlc link error

[Thomas Golding]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org 
> [mailto:vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Gilles Sabourin
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 5:18 PM
> To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
> Cc: Manfred.Tremmel at iiv.de
> Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] No more static theora library 
> provided in latestlibtheora packages leads to a vlc link error
> 
> Le Friday 21 December 2007 22:57:45 Rafaël Carré, vous avez écrit :
> > Le Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:44:07 +0100,
> >
> > Gilles Sabourin <gilles.sabourin at free.fr> a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This evening I have updated my configurations with latest 
> 1.0beta2 
> > > libtheora packages from packman repository for openSUSE 10.2 /10.3
> > >
> > > Manfred Tremel from packman project has not provided 
> static library 
> > > part for theora.
> > >
> > > Hence both vlc-0.8.6d and vlc-0.9 does not link. I tried 
> > > --disable-theora option, but libtool still stops on this error :
> > >
> > > /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc 
> -Wsign-compare -Wall 
> > > -pipe -o libaccess_output_shout_plugin.so 
> > > libaccess_output_shout_plugin.a -L/usr/lib64 -shared 
> -lpthread -fpic 
> > > -fPIC -lshout -lvorbis -lm -ltheora -logg -u vlc_entry__0_8_6
> > > libtool: link: cannot find the library 
> `/usr/lib64/libtheora.la' or 
> > > unhandled argument `/usr/lib64/libtheora.la'
> > > make[4]: *** [libaccess_output_shout_plugin.so] Error 1
> > > make[4]: Leaving directory
> > > `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/vlc-0.8.6d/modules/access_output'
> > > make[3]: *** [all-modules] Error 1
> > > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > > `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/vlc-0.8.6d/modules/access_output'
> > > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > > `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/vlc-0.8.6d/modules' make[1]: *** 
> > > [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory 
> > > `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/vlc-0.8.6d' make: *** [all] Error 2
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply,
> > > Gilles
> >
> > Try ./vlc-config --libs plugin access_output_shout if it 
> shows theora, 
> > that means your *shout* .pc file is fucked up.
> >
> > % pkg-config --libs shout
> > -L/usr/local/lib -lshout -lvorbis -ltheora -lspeex -lm -logg
> >
> > So you'll have to modify /usr/lib/pkgconfig/shout.pc to remove 
> > -ltheora
> 
> Manfred,
> 
> I am building vlc from scratch, using an adapted rpm spec 
> file from Dominique Leuenberger. The problem is localized in 
> openSUSE 10.2 distribution only.
> 
> 
> Raphaël,
> 
> You're right. I have already encountered this problem : 
> libtool cannot handle 
> well the fact that another library still relies 
> on " /usr/lib64/libtheora.la " missing path.
> 
> When greeping in /usr/lib64, I've got : 
> 
> ./libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.la:dependency_libs=' 
> /usr/lib64/libquicktime.la -lavcodec /usr/lib64/liba52.la 
> /usr/lib64/libamrnb.la /usr/lib64/libamrwb.la -lgsm
> /usr/lib64/libmp3lame.la -lx264 -lxvidcore 
> /usr/lib64/libfaac.la /usr/lib64/libmp4v2.la 
> /usr/lib64/libfaad.la /usr/lib64/libX11.la 
> /usr/lib64/libXext.la /usr/lib64/libX11.la
> /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.la /usr/lib64/libXau.la
> /usr/lib64/libtheora.la
> /usr/lib64/libvorbisenc.la /usr/lib64/libvorbis.la -lavutil 
> /usr/lib64/libvorbis.la /usr/lib64/libogg.la 
> /usr/lib64/libogg.la -lpthread -lm -lz -ldl'
> 
> ./libshout.la:dependency_libs=' /usr/lib64/libtheora.la 
> /usr/lib64/libvorbis.la /usr/lib64/libogg.la -lm /usr/lib64/libogg.la'
> 
> libquicktime and libshout have simply to be rebuilt in this 
> new environment 
> from source rpm. For libquicktime, I'll have no problem since packman 
> repositories provides source rpm, but libshout comes from 
> SUSE and they does 
> not provide libshout-2.2.2-18.src.rpm

 
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/src-oss/suse/src/libshou
t-2.2.2-18.src.rpm

You mean this libshout src.rpm? You have to download the src RPM's manually
in the newer distributions.

Hope that helps...
Thomas Golding
Information Technology Engineer
World Radio Link
thomasg at worldradiolink.com