On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:14:05 +1300
"Laszlo (Laca) Peter" <Laszlo.Peter at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Don't try to build the "base specs" on Solaris.  They are
> RPM spec files that should be (more or less) buildable on
> Linux, using rpmbuild.  Each base spec is referenced in
> a Solaris spec file one directory up, so:
> 
> 1) cd ..
> 2) grep pidgin.spec *.spec
> SUNWgnome-im-client.spec:%use pidgin = pidgin.spec
> 3) pkgtool build --download SUNWgnome-im-client.spec
> 
> Hope this helps.

Wow, thanks. This message about pidgin.spec set me on the right track
for building totem.spec. I -HATE- totem using gstreamer and wanted to
recompile it for use with xinelib. I could not get it done. But with
this message I was able to compile SUNWgnome-media-player.spec. I
changed ./base-specs/totem.spec to have '--enable-xine'
The normal "pkgtool build .." errors out, but a "pkgbuild -bc specfile"
configures and compiles the software. After that a manual change to the
totem directory followed by a "gmake install" installed a new totem
using xinelib. Yes! Almost done... All that was left was make a symlink
from /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs to /usr/lib/codecs and now Quicktime
movies and Windows media is played by totem too. This is how I like
it.

-- 
Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D
++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxce snv99 ++

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