[SOLVED] ffmpeg and texi2html

vonbiber · 08-25-2016, 04:12 AM

I'm about to build ffmpeg (3.1.2) for my new 14.2 64-bit system.
I had previously built ffmpeg (2.7.0) in slackware 14.1 64-bit.
I didn't install tetex, but built and installed texlive-2016.

I noticed that texi2html (required for building ffmpeg) was not present.
But texi2any is, and it has an '--html' option.

I was wondering if creating a symbolic link named texi2html
to the command 'texi2any --html' would prevent the ffmpeg configure
sending me an error.

Anybody tried it?

guanx · 08-25-2016, 04:27 AM

Recent ffmpeg prefers texi2any over texi2html. Simply removing the check for texi2html in the SBo slackbuild should work.

cockcrow · 08-25-2016, 10:13 AM

Use texi2html from slackbuilds.org:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...arch=texi2html

franzen · 08-26-2016, 04:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cockcrow

Use texi2html from slackbuilds.org:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...arch=texi2html

texi2html is dead, i would follow the advice of
guanx. I'll ask the SBo-ffmpeg maintainer what he thinks about removing the texi2html-check.
Even without tetex/texlive installed this would work, as texi2any is provided by the texinfo package.

vonbiber · 08-26-2016, 08:58 AM

turns out texi2html is not needed.
The configure script, after detecting there was no texi2html, switched to makeinfo
(which is a symbolic link to texi2any).
So I was able to build ffmpeg (I removed the check for texi2html presence in the SlackBuild).

Thank you guys!