FreeBSD and ports vs. vlc

[Mario Loefler]

Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> 
> Upon reading that vlc would compile and run on FreeBSD-system I've tried
> for the last couple of hours to do just that... in vain. Almost all
> plugins fails to build though gnome, kde, sdl etc. are installed.
> 
> I believe the problem lies with the way FreeBSD's port-system installs the
> various libraries. Eg. vlc chokes when it can't find ...SDL/SDL.h, but it
> should look in SDL11/SDL.h instead. Same goes for gtk12, qt2, kde2 and
> possible others as well.
> 
> So I'm not able to compile vlc on FreeBSD unless I reinstall gtk, gnome,
> qt, kde, sdl, whatever manually and thus breaking the whole system. :-(
> 
> Another issue... I really miss an uninstall-option in the Makefile! ;)
> 
> Bjarne

Try linking your directories to the one needed by vlc.

	Mario