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

[Chris Petersen]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:58:55PM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
>>> This means that as far as packages go, there isn't really anything to 
>>> change.  However, it might be nice to figure out a way to deal with the 
>>> /etc/X11/XvMCConfig file so users don't run into issues thinking they 
>>> need to recompile mythtv when all they need to do is create that file.
> 
> We can start asking Mike to get this fixed in FC's xorg packages.

Sounds like a good idea.  Is this in an xorg package, or in the libXvMC 
package?  You think just submit a bug report, email the "core" list or 
something else?

> You'd want to pull in libXvMCW.so, not libXvMCW.so.1, and
> unfortunately it is always coded with absolute filename, which of
> course ahd to change from FC4 to FC5. Add to it that x86_64 (and ia64,
> but who run myth on ia64...) mangles the 64 bit names, so
> non-automatic dependencies on so.x are broken. :(

You can't just use macros in the spec?

BuildRequires:  %{_libdir}/libXvMCW.so

I was pondering doing that for the nvidia library stuff, too, so people 
could install the drivers with nvidia's installer if they wanted to.

-Chris