The libcaca library is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals. It is not unlike the famous AAlib library. libcaca needs a terminal to work, thus it should work on all Unix systems (including Mac OS X) using either the slang library or the ncurses library, on DOS using the <conio.h> library, and on Windows systems using either slang or ncurses (through Cygwin emulation) or <conio.h>. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 21684 [details, diff] well it's an ebuild of course :)
Description contains 'ASCI' This should of course be 'ASCII'
mplayerhq news says: MPlayer is yet to support libcaca directly, but with the following patch, the -vo sdl:caca MPlayer option will enable caca video output (if it's monochrome, check the TERM enviroment variable). The patch for the vanilla SDL 1.2.6 can be downloaded here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/patch-SDL-1.2.6-deb-caca.diff.bz2
VLC version 0.7.0 to be released this newyear, already supports full blown caca output. There is also a patch to SDL that can give you caca output in every SDL based program. witht the earlier mentioned patch to this include mplayer for instance.
Created attachment 23197 [details, diff] New version This is an ebuild for the new version of caca. Someone please commit this? It's fine as it is. doesn't require much work at all.
VLC 0.7.0 does not yet work with 0.6, so the 0.2 ebuild I uploaded earlier should be committed as well as the 0.6, so VLC can use the 0.2 version (nothing else supports caca yet, so it doesn't really matter :)
did you try this with sandbox enabled ?
sandbox? isn't that enabled by default? Why?
ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/tc mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/tc': Permission denied kpsestat: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/jknappen/tc/..: No such file or directory chmod: too few arguments
I asked the developer >Is it possible that libcaca isn't fully respecting PREFIX or something? >I'm not really sure what the problem is (see also the entire bugreport) > >I don't get what it is doing in this directory Looks like a problem in the LaTeX installation. libcaca 0.8 will have a --disable-doc flag to ask it not to build documentation, but this problem should probably be fixed nonetheless.
0.2 is in cvs
