FreeBSD and ports vs. vlc

[Scott Lambert]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:31:23PM +0200, German Tischler wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:55:17PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:41:33 -0400
> > Alan Shutko <ats at acm.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > If they break the interfaces that other programs depend on, isn't that
> > > their problem?
> > 
> > Possible, I wouldn't know. I'm just reporting that vlc doesn't compile
> > out-of-the-box on FreeBSD.
> 
> Well, it would be nice if
> 
> 1. the vlc configure script would use config scripts like sdl-config
> 2. you could tell the script where to find that, instead of expecting
>    it to be in some path, for example
> 	
> 	--with-sdl-config=/somepath/sdl-config-file

and 

    --with-gtk-config=/somepath/gtk-config-file

It would be nice if we could get someone to create a port for vlc.  Then
it would be accessible to a lot more users.

I haven't ventured into the port creation realm yet.

-- 
Scott Lambert                          Unix SysAdmin -- Looking for work.
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Two and a half years Sr. SysAdmin experience with FreeBSD in a small, 
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The last 5 months have included exposure to Solaris 7, True64 5, and Linux.