[MPlayer-advusers] mplayer CVS doesn't compile with fontconfig support

[Sebastian]

Hi,

On So, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:25:36 +0100, gabor wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >On Sunday, 26 February 2006 at 15:56, Sebastian wrote:
> >>Hi all!
> >>
> >>I'd like to use freetype in mplayer from now on, but it doesn't compile
> >>with fontconfig support enabled.
> >
> >It does for me.
> >
> >>These are the versions of freetype and fontconfig I got installed:
> >>
> >>[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.10  -bindist -doc +zlib 0 kB
> >>[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3  0 kB
> >>
> >>This is what I use to compile mplayer from CVS:
> >>
> >>./configure --prefix=/usr \
> >>--confdir=/usr/share/mplayer --mandir=/usr/share/man \
> >>--datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --disable-runtime-cpudetection \
> >>--enable-largefiles --enable-menu --disable-network --disable-ftp \
> >>--with-x11incdir=/usr/X11R6/include --enable-lirc --disable-lircc \
> >>--disable-vm --disable-xf86keysym --disable-tv --disable-tv-v4l2 \
> >>--disable-tv-bsdbt848 --disable-edl --disable-tv-v4l \
> >>--disable-network --disable-winsock2 --disable-smb --disable-live \
> >>--disable-dvdread --disable-cdparanoia  --enable-freetype \
> >                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>--enable-fontconfig --disable-unrarlib --disable-enca \
> >  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >Remove this and retry.
> 
> to the original poster:
> 
> why are you using this terribly long configure line? :)

It's just a script I use to retrievie mplayer from CVS :) I don't need a
lot of mplayers features so I explicitly disable them.
> 
> to the point:
> 
> in mplayer's configure, --enable-* means FORCE. that means, if you say 
> --enable-fontconfig, it will just assume fontconfig is there (even if it 
> is not there).

Ah, thank you. Now it compiles fine.
> 
> that's why Dominik recommended to remove that part.
What a funny name.
>
> generally, you should not "--enable" anything.
> 
> so,
> 
> remove all the --enable lines, and try again.
> 
> p.s: mplayer-advusers is probably not the best place to ask such 
> questions. please use mplayer-users in the future.
:) At least it worked.
> 
> gabor
> 
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Thanks gabor

Sebastian
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