[MPlayer-users] Re: howto get mplayer to see toolame on

[Nico Sabbi]

sean wrote:

> Nico Sabbi wrote:
>
>> Stephen Stocker wrote:
>>
>>>> I have toolame installed in /usr/lib64
>>>>
>>>> ls /usr/lib64/libtool*
>>>> /usr/lib64/libtoolame.a
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> in mplayer configure I have
>>>>
>>>>  --with-toolamedir=/usr/lib64
>>>>
>>>> yet:
>>>>
>>>> Checking for mad support ... yes
>>>> Checking for Toolame ... no (using /usr/lib64)
>>>> Checking for OggVorbis support ... yes
>>>>
>>>> ???
>>>>
>>>> sean
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>  A couple of things come to mind. First, do you have the 02m-beta8
>>>  version of toolame? That may be the only version which is compatible,
>>>  I'm not sure.
>>>
>>>  More likely, you have a header file missing from the libtoolame
>>>  directory. The easiest thing to do is just copy the whole directory to
>>>  wherever you want it (cp -vr toolame-02m-beta8/libtoolame /usr/lib64/)
>>>  and use --with-toolamedir=/usr/lib64/libtoolame or whatever.
>>>
>>>  Hope this helps.
>>>  Steve
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
>> I confirm this: the path to the directory must include toolame:
>> --with-toolamedir=/usr/lib64/toolame/
>
> Thanks. I got it to work.
>
> The issue was the toolame 02m-beta8 put the library in /usr/lib64 and 
> the includes in /usr/include/toolame. mplayer really wants the 
> includes and the library in the same directory. So I created 
> /usr/lib64/libtoolame and symlinked everything into it.
>
> A modest suggestion: perhaps a --with-toolameincdir=xxxx  ?
>
> sean
>

yes, when I have some more time, or post a patch :)