[MPlayer-users] recompiling mplayer to incorporate ascii

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 16:42, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 15:36, Tate Austin wrote:
> >  I'm trying to enable the aalib and cacalib features in mplayer(the
> >  libraries that let you render graphics in ascii)
> 
> Hm... only aalib is supported in current RPM packages. But if you tell
> me where to download cacalib RPMs, I'll add support for them.
> 
> > I installed the src.rpm for mplayer-1.0pre4-1(the version I have)
> > 
> > Then when I attempt to do an rpmbuild --rebuild -with aalib
>                                                   ^^
> I assume you used a double hyphen there.
> 
> > mplayer-1.0pre4-1*.src.*rpm it issues an error:
> > error: syntax error in expression
> > error: /usr/src/packages/SPECS/mplayer.spec:122: parseExpressionBoolean
> > returns -1
> > error: Package has no %description: mplayer
> 
> I'll fix it.

Hm. Strange. I cannot reproduce this error. Please send me your distro
version, rpm version and `rpmbuild -bi -vvvv --with aalib mplayer.spec`
output.

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