[MPlayer-users] Library detection problems; configure is uninformative

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:40:07PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I have libfame installed on my system, along with the development 
> headers. ./configure nonetheless reports "Checking for libfame: no (no 
> fame dir)". I have located all files associated with libfame on my 
> system (aside from the documentation), and made sure they are in the 
> library/include paths passed to configure; this makes no difference. 
> Checking configure.log is no help, as the only information provided is 
> exactly what is present in configure's normal output.
> 
> My question is, where does configure look for libfame? The error seems 
> to indicate that some separate directory is needed, but no indication is 
> given of what it should be called or where it should be located, much 
> less what should be in it.

It looks for fame source in a subdir of mplayer src dir, not installed
libfame. BTW fame support is deprecated and might not work anymore
anyway... lavc is superior in all ways now afaik...

Rich