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

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:25:19PM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
> 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?

XvMCW is part of xorg's XvMC package.

> You think just submit a bug report, email the "core" list or
> something else?

Probably emailing fedora-devel or maybe fedora-config (as this might
be considered a feature missing from system-config-display).

> > 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

Yes, that would fix the absolute filename issue.

> 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.

No, that won't work.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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