I have a problem with the configuration of transcode. I installed ffmpeg and lame, but when I run the configuration on transcode, I get this error at the end:

checking whether lame support is requested... yes
checking for pkgconfig support for lame... no
checking how to determine LAME_CFLAGS... default
checking how to determine LAME_LIBS... default
checking for lame_init in -lmp3lame... yes
checking lame/lame.h usability... yes
checking lame/lame.h presence... yes
checking for lame/lame.h... yes
checking lame version... configure: error: lame requested, but cannot compile and run a test program


Can anyone help me??

I have ubuntu 4.10 installed.

not unless you post the relevant portion of the config.log (the part where it is trying to compile a small program with lame and it bails - check around the bottom of the file).

I'm not quite sure of what part of the config.log you need, but this is what it says about lame in the config.log:

| #define STATBUFFER 1
| #define HAVE_FREETYPE2 1
| #define HAVE_LAME_INC 1
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| #include <stdio.h>
|
| #ifdef HAVE_LAME_INC
| #include <lame/lame.h>
| #else
| #include <lame.h>
| #endif
|
| int main () {
| lame_version_t lv;
| get_lame_version_numerical(&lv);
| if(lv.alpha || lv.beta) lv.minor--;
| printf("%d%d\n", lv.major, lv.minor);
| return 0;
| }
|
configure:30066: error: lame requested, but cannot compile and run a test program

Tell me if I'm wrong. I'm kind of new with linux.

I had a problem that was similar, so this might work. Some lame headers install by default to /usr/local/include/lame. The permissions are set to only allow root access. If you change the permissions to allow user access and run the transcode ./configure script again, it should work.

Hope this helps

This worked!!!

Thank you, Maestro485....

I've the same problem but with your solution that doesn't seem to work.

I've compiled and installed succesfully lame-3.96.1 but it's not possible to compile transcode 0.6.14 (not even last cvs version) on debian unstable with kernel 2-6-11.

That seem to be the same t-smurf's problem.

This is my config.log......I've already tried to change permission of /usr/local/include/lame and declare lame libs prefix with --with-lame-libs=/usr/local/lib/
Anyone can help me?

| #include <stdio.h>
|
| #ifdef HAVE_LAME_INC
| #include <lame/lame.h>
| #else
| #include <lame.h>
| #endif
|
| int main () {
| lame_version_t lv;
| get_lame_version_numerical(&lv);
| if(lv.alpha || lv.beta) lv.minor--;
| printf("%d%d\n", lv.major, lv.minor);
| return 0;
| }
|
configure:30069: error: lame requested, but cannot compile and run a test program

Try running the lame ./configure script again with the '--enable-shared' option, recompile and install lame, and when thats done run (as root) /sbin/ldconfig

Then try compiling transcode again.

Also, you might want to do 'make uninstall' and 'make clean' for lame before recompiling it. I'm not sure if this is entirely necessary, but it can't hurt.

I try the system that you suggested me but nothing....

...but recompiling lame I saw in the text scrolling the solution!!!
Damn...why this very important messages appear during scrolling? Often It's too difficult to see it without lost it over the terminal buffer scroll limit.

Thanks very much....and excuse me for disturb Maestro485.

The message:
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Libraries have been installed in:
/usr/local/lib

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
- add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
during execution
- add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
during linking
- use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
- have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'
See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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