Xine slackware packages?

M$ISBS · 12-26-2011, 09:30 PM

Are there any xine slackware binaries available other than whats on the 1337 disc?
I searched all over different websites but could not find one.

dugan · 12-26-2011, 09:38 PM

Why would there be?

If you want a package that's built differently (e.g. with newer sources, different build settings, more dependencies, etc), then just edit and use the official Xine SlackBuild.

M$ISBS · 12-29-2011, 09:11 PM

Updated version? I think 1337 has 99.5 and on the xine website they have 99.6 but its source and it failed with all kinds of errors when I did make

dugan · 12-29-2011, 09:27 PM

It took me less than a minute to build xine-ui 0.99.6.

I downloaded the slackware64-current/source/xap/xine-ui directory with an FTP client set to preserve permissions (in my case: lftp and its "mirror" command
I replaced the xine-ui-0.99.5 source tarball in that directory with the xine-ui-0.99.6 source tarball
I ran the SlackBuild
I saw that the part of the SlackBuild that applied the patch didn't work, so I edited the SlackBuild and commented that line out
I ran the SlackBuild again
I saw that the configure step failed because the system had no lirc support, so I untarred the source, ran ./configure --help | grep lirc, noticed the --disable-lirc option, and added that option to the configure step of the xine-ui SlackBuild
I ran the SlackBuild
I used upgradepkg to install the resulting package

Well, okay, "less than a minute" might be an exaggeration. But that's what it felt like.