[ATrpms-devel] libXvMCW (and -devel for newer distros)

[Chris Petersen]

> Newer distros, or say better, FC5 gets its XvMCW from the vendor
> itself :)

I figured that was why you were building it with no files, however, my 
fc5 systems have no /etc/X11/XvMCConfig file, and I find no references 
for XvMCW in any yum searches.

> I'm not sure whether I will be able to really get rid of this dummy
> package as it is needed for keeping specfiles for FC5 and pre-FC5/RHEL
> the same. In that case it would have to be better documented in
> Summary and %description.

That was why I suggested switching to a file-based requirement instead 
of package-based.  But like I said, that necessary file doesn't seem to 
appear in FC5's XvMC packages.  At least, I *thought* that the file was 
necessary.  Maybe it should just be a requirement for 
%{_libdir}/libXvMCW.so.1 ?  I know that fedora is really pushing for 
people to set their requirements up as file-based rather than 
package-based to solve stuff like this.

Looks like I was wrong and mythtv compiles just fine without the 
/etc/X11/XvMCConfig file.  But in this process, I ran into another issue 
(in svn, not sure about .19).  XvMCW is *not* required for mythtv.  In 
fact, it actually hinders performance of the new opengl menu code, which 
can be pushed to nvidia's xvmc handler but not the VLD stuff.

Do you build your packages primarily with xvmcw instead of the 
vendor-specific libraries?  I think that as mythtv adds more 
vendor-specific options, it might be wise for me to add support to the 
configure script to have something like "prefer-xvmcw" because currently 
xvmcw doesn't give you access to the nice opengl stuff.

-Chris