[vlc] Bootsrap error on Mac OS X

Ralf Niedling ralf.niedling at mac.com
Mon Mar 17 23:48:50 CET 2008


As I read on the developers site I should not post any questions on  
how to compile vlc, so I hope this is the right place to ask for help.

I try to compile the VLC Mac OS X Framework to use it in an own project.

Firtst of all I tryed to follow the instructions from the WIKI on how  
to compile vlc itself. I managed to solve some problems compiling the  
required libraries.
There where some errors when compiling ffmpeg. I get rid of the  
errors changing the following compile options in vlc-trunk/extras/ 
contrib/src/Makefile:

From				To
--enable-pp 			--enable-postporc
--enable-swscaler	--enable-swscale

After that changes I can do a make in vlc-trunk/extras/contrib/  
without any error.
But when I call ./bootstrap in vlc-trunk/ it ends up in the following  
erro:

...
generating modules/**/Makefile.am and m4/private.m4
........................................................................ 
.
+ echo
+ cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.svn
+ autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4 -I extras/contrib/ 
share/aclocal
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
m4/glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB
   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending- 
aclocal
/Volumes/Sandbox/VLC/vlc-trunk/extras/contrib/share/aclocal/ 
glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
configure.ac:396: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not  
m4_defun'd
m4/gettext.m4:362: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
configure.ac:396: the top level
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `autotools'.
m4/glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB
   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending- 
aclocal
/Volumes/Sandbox/VLC/vlc-trunk/extras/contrib/share/aclocal/ 
glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB
autoreconf: running: /Volumes/Sandbox/VLC/vlc-trunk/extras/contrib/ 
bin/autoconf --include=m4 --include=extras/contrib/share/aclocal --force
configure.ac:396: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not  
m4_defun'd
m4/gettext.m4:362: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
configure.ac:396: the top level
configure:23254: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR
       If this token and others are legitimate, please use  
m4_pattern_allow.
       See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /Volumes/Sandbox/VLC/vlc-trunk/extras/contrib/bin/ 
autoconf failed with exit status: 1


and I have no idea how to solve this.

After reading about the problems on building vlc on Leopard I decide  
to setup a sandbox system which is as follows:
Mac OS X 10.4.11 (plain fresh setup)
XCode 2.4.1
X11
Subversion 1.4.6
CMake 2.4-patch 8
vlc-trunk checked out on 2008-03-11

I hope someone can help me!

Thanks

Ralf



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