[MPlayer-users] recompiling mplayer to incorporate ascii

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 22:38, 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.
> 
> I have not been doing rpm --build --rebuild...

What? Ah, I see. You use variable-width font. I meant
rpmbuild --rebuild --with aalib (instead of -with aalib, which won't work).

> I will attempt this when
> I get home.  As for libcaca there is a delightful project for it;
> http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/

OK, I'll check it when I have some time.

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