Bug#582784: patch to enable fribidi support in mplayer

[Lior Kaplan]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>wrote:

> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 18:01:07 (CEST), Lior Kaplan wrote:
>
> > This is probably due to the an updated libfribidi package (version
> 0.19.2-1)
> > which has dropped fribidi-config that mplayer checks for.
> >
> > I'm attaching a patch to fix the configure script. Additionally the
> > following
> > configure option has to be added:
> > "--with-fribidi-config=/usr/bin/pkg-config"
>
> I'm sorry that I haven't looked at your patch more closely before. I was
> just to apply your patch, but this approach is not acceptable for
> neither upstream nor the debian package.
>
> I've therefore invested some time to add pkg-config support
> properly, commit it to svn trunk, backported to the mplayer package, got
> flamed upstream for making pkg-config mandatory (breaks cygwin builds)
> and eventually fixed that as well.
>
> Anyway, this should be fixed now in debian as well.
>
> I'm sorry for the trouble you had, but as the debian package already build
depends on pkg-config, it seems legitimate.

Could you send me your fix, in order to learn ?

Kaplan
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