Re: Issues building vlc

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2015-04-07 11:53, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2015-04-07 08:00, Philip Balister wrote:
>> On 04/07/2015 09:56 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> I'm trying to build vlc and I get this error:
>>> ERROR: Multiple .bb files are due to be built which each provide jpeg
>>> (/local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-oe/recipes-core/jpeg/libjpeg-turbo_8d+1.4.0.bb
>>> /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta/recipes-core/jpeg/jpeg_8d.bb).
>>>   This usually means one provides something the other doesn't and should.
>>>
>>> This comes from the fact that vlc depends on libjpeg-turbo
>>> which conflicts with the main jpeg library in OE-core.
>>>
>>> What's the best way to fix this?
>>
>> This page starts to explain:
>>
>> http://openembedded.org/wiki/PREFERRED_PROVIDER_for_jpeg_and_jpeg-native
>>
>> It could use some work explaining the difference between the two
>> alternatives.
>
> Thanks, that helped.  Sadly, the build of vlc still failed.
>    | arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi-libtool:   error: cannot find the library '' or unhandled argument '-DLINUX=1'
>    | make[6]: *** [libqt4_plugin.la] Error 1
>    | make[6]: Leaving directory `/local/p0382-cutting-edge_2014-11-21/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-amltd-linux-gnueabi/vlc/2.1.4-r0/build/modules/gui/qt4'
>
> It's not clear at all to me why this fails - any clues?
>
> See http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/vlc-log.do_compile for the full log
>

This turned out to be a problem with the Qt libraries, but only
on i.MX5/i.MX6 (using meta-fsl-arm)

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