[vlc] Building VLC nightlies withoug affecting stable install

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/12/1 Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at chewa.net>:
> Hello,
>
> 2008/12/1 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
>> I am an Ubuntu user who regularly needs to view RTSP streams. I would
>> like to start following the development of VLC and to file bugs on the
>> nightlies. How can I build the nightlies without affecting the stable
>> VLC installation? I would prefer to use a separate command to open the
>> development VLC, such as:
>> $ vlc-nightlies rtsp://some-old-server/file.wmv
>
>
> The best is to compile and not install
> Then you can go in the directory with vlc and do ./vlc rtsp://....
>

Thanks, I will try that.

> To compile: See wiki.videolan.org/wiki/Git to get the sources

That link should be wiki.videolan.org/Git (for archive searchers).

> apt-get install build-essential cvs ; apt-get build-dep vlc  to get
> the tools and libraries
> ./bootstrap
> ./configure --lots-of-options
> make
>

Thank you. I will pay special attention to the --lots-of-options flag
:) I wonder if I can find out which options the default Ubuntu build
has.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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