mplayer-devel upgrade breaks

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 25, 2010, at 08:41, Gill Bates wrote:

> the installed mplayer doesn't execute and complains about:
> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/ports/lib/libx264.70.dylib
>   Referenced from: /opt/ports/bin/mplayer
>   Reason: image not found
> There is no libx264.70.dylib, but there is libx264.88.dylib.

Ok, then mplayer needs to be rebuilt against the new x264.

> I also did "port clean --all mplayer-devel" followed by "port upgrade -u mplayer-devel" and got the same error.

You don't need to clean --all unless you get a checksum error; regular clean is sufficient in other cases.

> Can I somehow revert to a previous version of x264?

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort