Bug 275844

Summary:	media-tv/xbmc use external libraries
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Craig Andrews <candrews>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	greg.loscombe, leho
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Craig Andrews gentoo-dev

2009-06-29 16:34:02 UTC

XBMC recently added support for using external libraries inside of bundling every single dependency. See http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/5416 for details.

Basically, "--enable-external-libraries" needs to be added to configure, and the ebuild needs to be changed to depend on the libraries it needs.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-07-20 08:22:13 UTC

updated in cvs, thanks

http://sources.gentoo.org/media-tv/xbmc/xbmc-9999.ebuild?r1=1.25&r2=1.26

Comment 2 Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2009-11-18 02:15:31 UTC

i recommend this bug be reopened, because enabling external libraries breaks xbmc python [0]. there might be a way to somehow configure xbmc to work better with system python, but i'd rather have saved all this time it took figuring this out. i tried --enable-external-libraries and --disable-external-python, but --e-e-l always prevailed. xbmc svn 24501 compiled fine with all internals as well, so at least a static use flag should be provided for this.

[0] http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7291

Comment 3 ci3nte 2012-06-12 14:15:13 UTC

I recommend this bug be reopened too, especially a useflag for external ffmpeg would be nice (ffmpeg maybe), because xbmc-9999 is at the moment only compatible to ffmpeg and not libav. To circumvent this problem it would be nice to disable the ffmpeg useflag (which internally set --disable-external-ffmpeg), so xbmc uses its own ffmpeg and not the systemwide. See also https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420831.