[vlc] building vlc on slackware

[Jude DaShiell]

I got some of the dependencies built, schroedinger being the exception 
since it apparently keeps crashing my litetalk speech synthesizr and maybe 
the computer as well.  The orc dependency was no problem but schroedinger 
is a real can of worms.  The litetalk runs on a serial port and I could 
switch it to ttyS1 on the slackware box if that would help.  I'm more 
likely to attach the litetalk to a dos box and attach the dos box to the 
slackware box by serial cable and try the build again though to see if I 
can find out what is happening.  I'm using http://www.slackbuilds.org for 
this stuff too, so that's the source of the scripts and others home pages 
get the original files the scripts build.
For those of us living in the United States there is a problem with libdba 
(patents).  I'm curious if that's the only dependency vlc has that's a 
problem and also curious if vlc can be built without all of the problem 
dependencies and work to some minimal level after the build.


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jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>