Mplayer Variant Help

[EmmGunn]

I couldn't get the mplayer to build and so tried mplayer-devel which  
worked like a charm.


On May 13, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Eric Cronin wrote:

>
> On May 13, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On May 13, 2009, at 12:25, EmmGunn wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking at the different variants for mplayer and most of them  
>>> are self explanatory, but I have a couple of questions.  I noticed  
>>> this in the port file:
>>>
>>> 83	# configure is not autoconf
>>> 84	universal_variant no
>>>
>>> which I took to mean that a universal variant is not available,
>>
>> That's correct. Because mplayer does not use a standard autoconf  
>> configure script, the standard universal variant does not work with  
>> it. If someone wanted to invest some time in figuring out how to  
>> make mplayer compile universal, it could probably be done by  
>> writing a custom universal variant for that port.
>>
>>> but then I see a binary_codecs variant which has something about  
>>> powerpc and i386.  What does this do exactly?  Is this something  
>>> equivalent to a universal variant?  I was hoping to compile a  
>>> universal build of mplayer.
>>
>> Sorry, the port says "universal_variant no", which means someone  
>> tried to build a universal binary and found that it failed, and  
>> added this to the portfile to save you the trouble. If you really  
>> want a universal binary, you will have to write a custom universal  
>> variant for this port. If you do, please contribute it back to us  
>> so that we can put it in the portfile.
>
>
> If someone is interested in tackling the universal build they may  
> want to contact Mo Haque and see if the scripts he uses to update <http://haque.net/software/mplayer/mplayerosx/builds/ 
> > are useful in manually setting up the crosscompile environment.
>
> Also, I'm not sure what the state of the new port is, but if mplayer- 
> devel builds currently I would strongly recommend it over the  
> MPlayer port since upstream stopped rolling full releases over 2  
> years ago and MPlayer hasn't been updated other than to fix build  
> issues since then.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric