[Slackbuilds-users] libva and vdpau-driver: old versions

[Heinz Wiesinger]

On Saturday 25 October 2014 08:42:01 John Vogel wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:47:40 +0200
> 
> Heinz Wiesinger <pprkut at liwjatan.at> wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 October 2014 00:03:37 John Vogel wrote:
> > > The SlackBuilds for libva and vdpau-video are based on very old
> > > versions. I
> > > have had good success building libva-1.4.0, though it won't build
> > > without
> > > wayland or possibly with this hack I found:
> > > https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79478#c6 . I have
> > > got
> > > a SlackBuild for libva-vdpau-driver at version 0.7.4 based on
> > > archlinux's
> > > libva-vdpau-driver hacked over the top of the old vdpau-video
> > > SlackBuild. I
> > > can forward my scripts or make them available on my github repo, or
> > > both.
> > > Both builds work well here on two of my systems with nvidia boards in
> > > them.
> > 
> > I have patches to circumvent the bug. I created them for 1.3.1, but they
> > should work just the same for 1.4, maybe with small modifications. They
> > are not really suitable upstream fixes, which is why I didn't bother
> > attaching them to the bug report at fd.o. I'll attach them here in case
> > anyone is interested. Note that libva-intel-driver needs a small
> > additional hack in one Makefile to> 
> > make it compile:
> > > sed -ie "1266d" src/Makefile
> > 
> > Grs,
> > Heinz
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> I can comfirm that the libva patch applies to 1.4.0 and 1.4.1, both
> of which build without wayland and wayland-scanner when given the
> --enable-wayland=0 configure argument.
> 
> The libva-intel-driver patch applies to 1.4.0 and 1.4.1, but there is a bug
> in the file generation of src/Makefile (even for 1.3.2) that causes `make`
> to bomb. Shouldn't be hard to fix... I'll post it when I get it working, and
> can supply a libva-intel-driver slackbuild for testing (I don't have any
> Intel cpus/gpus at home, or I would test it myself).

That's what the sed command in my previous mail was for :)

Grs,
Heinz