[vlc] VLC 0.9.2 bug: Mozilla plugin is not recognized by 64-bit Firefox 3.0.1

[Frank Bures]

Frank Bures wrote:
> Christophe Mutricy wrote:
>> 2> Could the problem be that 'make install' loads VLC libraries into
>>> /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/local/lib64 on a x86_64 machine?
>> It could.
>>
>> Does vlc runs normally ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> does ldd -r libvlcplugin.so complain about unresolved symbols ?
> 
> It was confused with lib and lib64.  I modified /etc/ld.so.conf.d and now
> it does not complain any more.
> 
>> is your libvlc in a place ld looks for and have you rerun ldconfig ?
> 
> Yes.  However, I found that I had one xmms package missing
> (libxmms.so.1.3.1 missing).
> 
> I'll try to recompile the plugin and will report back.
> 
> Thanks for your pointers, it helped to get me out of the corner I boxed
> myself into.
> 
> Cheers
> Frank
> 

Just for the record.  In RHEL5 the 64-bit libvlcplugin.so must be installed  in
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

Works OK - finally :-)

Thanks for your help
Frank

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