have a compile problem

[Net Llama!]

Keith Antoine wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 03:14, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 
>>This is because libpng.so.2 is listed as an RPM dependency, but there is
>>no RPM which claims to provide it.  That is where you have to do a
>>"--nodeps" and is one of the problems with RPM.  This is part of the
>>advantage to using Checkinstall when installing from source.  If you
>>compiled and installed libpng.so.2 with CheckInstall, all you should
>>(theoretically) need to do is alter the "Provides" line to include the
>>filename libpng.so.2 and you should be all set to install RPM's with deps
>>for it.
> 
> 
> I'll have to remember that one, but it is MPlayer thats not finding libpng.

For Mplayer, if you run "./configure --help" you'll see these lines:
   --with-extraincdir=DIR   extra headers (png, dvb, mad, sdl, css, ...) 
in DIR
   --with-extralibdir=DIR   extra library files (png, SDL, ...) in DIR

use them to fix your mess.


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