no package vpx found when building weston

Scott Moreau oreaus at gmail.com
Thu May 31 12:32:58 PDT 2012


On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net>wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:17:00PM -0400, darxus at chaosreigns.com wrote:
> >> On 05/31, Prigent, Christophe wrote:
> >> >    I had an error when building Weston: "package requirements (cairo
> vpx)
> >> >    were not met: no package vpx found".
> >> >
> >> >    The installation of libvpx0 and libvpx-dev from the synaptic
> package
> >> >    manager didn’t fix the problem. I found that there is no .pc file
> related
> >> >    to it inside /usr/share/pkgconfig.
> >> >
> >> >    I’m working on Ubuntu 10.04.
> >>
> >>   libvpx
> >>
> >>   webm video encoding library required for Weston video capture. Fedora
> >>   16 package works, Ubuntu Oneric package does not.
> >>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>
> >>     $ git clone http://git.chromium.org/webm/libvpx.git
> >>
> >>
> >> - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html as of three days ago.
> >>
> >
> > Debating whether to add this to the cint repo. Fedora's OS packages
> > already work, so I don't hit it. I'm guessing we don't integrate tightly
> > enough with it to bother. In a short time it will probably work for
> > everyone.
>
> I'm using Fedora OS packages myself, I wouldn't build more than necessary.
>
> Kristian
>
>
Fedora packages worked for me as well but as pointed out on IRC, the -lm is
actually pulled in by cairo, which gets it from mesa.

<robster> your cairo built for GL pulls in the deps from the mesa pc files
<robster> .la files tend to have excessive linking information



Scott
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