[vlc] Re: compiling vlc on solaris

[Ollie Eisman]

I forgot to mention that the two files that needed to be modified were:

/usr/local/src/videolan/vlc-0.7.2/modules/audio_filter/Makefile
and
/usr/local/src/videolan/vlc-0.7.2/modules/gui/Makefile

Ollie Eisman wrote:
> I just compiled VLC on solaris and had to modify two Makefiles to get it 
> to work.
> 
> I am using gcc 3.0.3
> 
> I unpacked the source to:
> /usr/local/src/videolan/vlc-0.7.2
> 
> I noticed, during gmake at the all-modules part, that both audio_filter 
> and gui modules would fail with an error that "`;' was unexpected."
> 
> The Makefile for each contains:
> 
> all-modules:
>         @set fnord $$MAKEFLAGS; amf=$$2; targets=`\
>         if test "$(plugin)" != "no"; then z=$$($(VLC_CONFIG) --target 
> plugin); for mod in ; do case "$$z" in */lib$${mod}_plugin*) echo 
> lib$${mod}_plugin$(LIBEXT);; esac; done; fi; \
>         if test "$(builtin)" != "no"; then z=$$($(VLC_CONFIG) --target 
> builtin); for mod in ; do case "$$z" in */lib$${mod}.a*) echo 
> lib$${mod}.a;; esac; done; fi; \
>         if test "$(pic)" != "no"; then z=$$($(VLC_CONFIG) --target 
> builtin pic); for mod in ; do case "$$z" in */lib$${mod}_pic.a*) echo 
> lib$${mod}_pic.a;; esac; done; fi; \
> 
> 
> To get it to work, I touched a file called dummy.c in each directory and 
> modified the code so that each of the above lines now contains the word 
> "dummy":
> 
> ...for mod in dummy ; do case...
> 
> That seemed to fix it.
> 
> Perhaps there is a better way to deal with this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ollie
> 
> 

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