SOLVED: My bad - Problems rebuilding ffmpeg to include libfaac

[Andrew Robinson]

On 12/27/2009 11:35 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>
> To try to fix this and preserve all the yum dependencies, I decided I
> should download and build the source rpm. (Is this the best approach?) I
> downloaded and installed ffmpeg-0.5-3.fc11.src.rpm, which matched the
> version from 'rpm -qa | grep ffmpeg' on my system. Looking in the
> ffmpeg.spec file, I found these lines:
>
> %{?_with_faac:BuildRequires: faac-devel}
>
> %{?_with_faac:--enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree} \\\
>
> I uncommented those two lines and ran 'rpmbuild -ba ffmpeg.spec'. The
> first time, it failed with a list of devel packages I needed. I
> installed those with yum. Then it ran for a long time and then errorred
> out at the end with these statements:
>
> RPM build errors:
> File not found by glob:
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/ffmpeg-0.5-3.fc11.i386/usr/lib/lib*.so.*
> File not found by glob:
> /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/ffmpeg-0.5-3.fc11.i386/usr/lib/i686/lib*.so.*
>

Went back and looked at the ffmpeg.spec file. I realized that when I 
uncommented the "--enable-libfaac" line, I also removed the triple back 
slashes for the line continuation. I put those back and reran rpmbuild. 
It worked this time. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth :).

Andrew Robinson