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vlc build for RHEL5

There were a few problems building vlc for rhel5, quite a few dependencies as well. Here are my spec and src.rpm

At one point the compile will crash due to min() not begin defined.
mkv.cpp: In member function 'virtual bool dvd_chapter_codec_c::Enter()':
mkv.cpp:5848: error: no matching function for call to 'min(size_t&, long long unsigned int)'
mkv.cpp: In member function 'virtual bool dvd_chapter_codec_c::Leave()':
mkv.cpp:5871: error: no matching function for call to 'min(size_t&, long long unsigned int)'
gmake[4]: *** [libmkv_plugin_a-mkv.o] Error 1
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.6e/modules/demux'
gmake[3]: *** [all-modules] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.6e/modules/demux'
gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.6e/modules'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc/work/vlc-0.8.6e'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error code 2
I added a definition to min as a patch, and it seems to work fine…
#define min(a,b) (((a) < (b)) ? (a):(b))
 I’m not sure where min(a,b) is supposed to be defined, anyone know the real header file for that?

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5 Responses to “vlc build for RHEL5”

  1. kwizart Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 16:06

    Hello!
    Maybe you would need to update libmatroska-devel ?
    Note that the new version currently available in livna (vlc-0.8.6f-1) has a patch to support wxGTK 2.8.x, so you won’t have the volume bar problem with this version.
    I would be pleased to have some feedback for the RHEL-5 build, as RPM Fusion plan to support it sooner or later ;)

    Nicolas (kwizart)

  2. uphill Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 19:06

    Yeah, it’s libmatroska that’s the problem, but the latest matroska I could find didn’t have min defined anywhere :-(. I’ll try upgrading wxGTK to 2.8 (using 2.6 was the lazy way out :-( ) RHEL5 has added a lot more of the deps lately, so I think my total package build was around 25 to get vlc deps satisfied.

    Merci,
    –Thomas.

  3. luxigo Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 05:16

    no it means you just have to add this in the beginning of mkv.cpp

    #define min(a,b) (a<b?a:b)

  4. luxigo Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 05:20

    gentoo people have done it like this

    — modules/demux/mkv.cpp.orig Sun Feb 24 14:01:53 2008
    +++ modules/demux/mkv.cpp Wed Mar 19 11:45:02 2008
    @@ -5845,7 +5845,7 @@ bool dvd_chapter_codec_c::Enter()
    binary *p_data = (*index)->GetBuffer();
    size_t i_size = *p_data++;
    // avoid reading too much from the buffer
    - i_size = min( i_size, ((*index)->GetSize() – 1) >> 3 );
    + i_size = min( i_size, ((*index)->GetSize() – 1) >> 3 );
    for ( ; i_size > 0; i_size–, p_data += 8 )
    {
    msg_Dbg( &sys.demuxer, “Matroska DVD enter command” );
    @@ -5868,7 +5868,7 @@ bool dvd_chapter_codec_c::Leave()
    binary *p_data = (*index)->GetBuffer();
    size_t i_size = *p_data++;
    // avoid reading too much from the buffer
    - i_size = min( i_size, ((*index)->GetSize() – 1) >> 3 );
    + i_size = min( i_size, ((*index)->GetSize() – 1) >> 3 );
    for ( ; i_size > 0; i_size–, p_data += 8 )
    {
    msg_Dbg( &sys.demuxer, “Matroska DVD leave command” )

  5. luxigo Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 05:24

    they solved it like this in gentoo: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=147317

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