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From: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au>
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Subject: Re: ffmpeg port
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:38, Lucas Holt wrote:
> Just an fyi, the ffmpeg port is not building propery for two possible
> reasons.  First, several of the html documents are not found and make
> dies.  Second, if you ran the install once and it failed, it created a
> symlink in /usr/local/lib/ for a libavacodec.so (or something like that).
>
> So to get it to install, comment out the doc portion of the make file and
> remove that symlink before doing make install.
>
> You will get no man pages and a waring about it but it will install the
> port.
Actually I found that if I ran tex2html in ffmpeg/work/.../doc on the *.texi 
files, the install went OK. Even if/after the libs were symlinked.

-Alastair