vlc 0.2.92 & libSDL

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Could someone with access to the vlc web-site, put this script up there.
In a FAQ or something.

Kind regards,
Jean-Paul Saman.

Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> 
> Luca \"Keeno\" Olivari wrote:
> > Hi, I've just downloaded vlc 0.2.92  for RH (I've a RH 7.2) and when I
> > try to install I receive a failed dependencies error:
> >
> > LibSDL-1.1.so.0 is needed by vlc 0.2.92-1
> >
> > Obviously I've downloaded & installed libdvdcss1 (normal & devel)
> > where can I find that library?
> > do I need it also for my debian 2.2.r5?
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> 
> The RedHat only has -1.2 of the library. Here is a way to get XVideo and
>    libSDL-1.1.so.0 right for your system.
> 
> On this mailing-list there are some regular reports about missing
> SDL-1.1 and Xvideo shared libraries on RedHat 7.2 systems. Therefore I
> created this shell script to patch that system. It is only needed for
> people who like to use SDL and or Xvideo output plugins for vlc.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Patch for vlc (www.videolan.org)
> # and xine (xine.sourceforge.net)
> # ===============================
> # 3.5.2 The Xv video-out plugin fails to compile!
> #
> #      If you want to have Xv support compiled in, make sure you either
> #      have
> #      a shared Xv library on your system, e.g. ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv*
> #      should give you some .so libs, like this:
> #
> #      /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.a
> #      /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so
> #      /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1
> #
> #      Alternatively you need to have libtool 1.4 or newer installed. If
> #      not
> #      and you only got libXv.a you can create the shared versions
> #      yourself:
> #
> #       ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXv.so.1 libXv.a
> #       ln -s libXv.so.1 libXv.so
> #       ldconfig
> #
> #      Now you should be ready to build the Xv video-out plugin on your
> #      system.
> #
> ###############################################################################
> 
> if [ `whoami` != 'root' ]
> then
>      echo "Run this script as root."
>      exit -1
> fi
> 
> echo -n "Testing if patch is needed:"
> if [ ! -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.a ]
> then
>      echo "XFree86-devel-4.1.0-3 is not installed."
>      echo "Install the packages from RedHat distribution first."
>      exit -1
> fi
> 
> if [ -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1 ] &&
> [ -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so ]
> then
>      echo "Patch is not needed.";
>      exit -1
> else
>      echo "Patch Xvideo setup."
>      cd /usr/X11R6/lib
>      /usr/bin/ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXv.so.1 libXv.a
>      [ -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so ] || rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so
>      /bin/ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so
>      /sbin/ldconfig
> fi
> 
> #
> # SDL output of vlc expects libSDL-1.1, but RedHat supplies libSDL-1.2.
> #
> if [ -f /usr/lib/libSDL-1.1.so.0 ]
> then
>     echo -n "Testing if patch is needed:"
>     echo "SDL patch is not needed."
>     exit -1
> else
>     echo -n "Patch SDL setup."
>     ln -s /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib/libSDL-1.1.so.0
>     echo "done."
> fi
> echo "done."
> 
> # end of patch script
> 
> Kind greetings,
> 
> Jean-Paul Saman
> 
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