How to get mkvtoolnix to work?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Wed Sep 19 03:52:37 PDT 2012


On 2012-09-19 11:37, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Sep 19, 2012, at 02:07, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
>> I have tried to install mkvtoolnix, but the program keeps crashing 
>> (https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34806). Is there any workaround
>> I can try? (I need the program to add chapters to my avi files, I
>> don't care if I need to perform ugly workarounds and/or write
>> portfiles myself, I just don't know where to start.)
> 
> Go back to mkvtoolnix 5.0.1; that should work. Newer versions require
> not only that mkvtoolnix be built with gcc46 or newer, but also that
> boost and icu are also built with that same compiler; the latter is
> something we don't have in MacPorts right now.

Why don't we revert the port back to version 5.0.1 which was working?
I don't see much use in leaving the port in a broken state.

Rainer


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