[vlc-devel] OSXCompile instructions fail when building from tarball

[Neil Coggins]

Hi all,
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
"Download the VLC media player source code (using Git) as described on the "Get the source" page or get a recent source tarball."
However, tarballs fail with the error
REVISION=`git describe --always` && \        cat ./extras/package/macosx/Info.plist | \        sed "s/#REVISION#/$REVISION/g" > ./tmp/extras/package/macosx/Info.plistfatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .gitmake[2]: *** [VLC.app] Error 128make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1make: *** [all] Error 2
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)...?
Neil. 		 	   		  
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