[Slackbuilds-users] vlc slackbuild

Tim Dickson dickson.tim at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 22 17:51:36 UTC 2019


On 22/02/2019 12:51, Christoph Willing wrote:
> On 22/2/19 8:33 pm, Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users wrote:
>
>> vlc was built with the options OPENCV=yes WAYLAND=yes
>> I can provide all the build options chosen for all the deps if it would
>> help.
>>
> I admit that I don't test that particular option combination very often.
> I just rebuilt vlc with OPENCV=yes (using opencv-legacy) and a quick
> test of the resulting vlc was fine.
>
> However the wayland option is quite time consuming to test since it
> requires qt5 to have been (re)built with wayland, wayland-egl &
> wayland-protocols already installed. It's now late enough here that it
> will be an overnight job to rebuild qt5 and then vlc.
>
> In the meantime, could you build & test vlc without wayland support?
> Success there would indicate that wayland support is the problem. Then
> we'd have to figure out a possible fix or just not support that option
> any more.
>
> chris
>
>
I've now also tried the other way around, enable wayland and disable 
opencv (legacy) and it now runs without seg-faulting, which is the 
opposite result of your test!. I'm open to more suggestions, although at 
least it runs now,
Tim


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