[x264-devel] Unable to build x264-snapshot-20081108-2245/

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello,

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:44 AM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fedora 7, with rpm version 4.4.2.2
> I am not able to build x264 due to undefined
> macros in the spec file. This is the error:
>
> # rpmbuild -bb x264.spec
> error: line 4: Unknown tag: %lib_package x264 65
>
> If I comment out that line, I get the same problem with
> %lib_dependencies
>
> Upgrading to rpm 5.x is very drastic for me because the rpm developers
> have not provided me with a clean way to do so - way too many dependencies.
>
> Could someone provide me with a spec file for this snapshot
> that will build under rpm 4.4.2.2??

I think you should contact x264's RPM package maintainer directly.
x264 doesn't ship any tool that I know of that allows to build an RPM
out of the box.

The only things supported is the plain ./configure && make as well as
MSVC's project files.

Guillaume
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