Re: [Swftools-common] Problem compiling avi2swf

[Matthias Kramm]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:02:28AM +0000, nonya bidness wrote:
> The error is as follows:
> configure:6629: checking whether we can compile the avifile test program
> avi2swf.m4:71: c++  -Wparentheses -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -O 
> -fomit-frame-pointer  -I/usr/include/avifile -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -laviplay 
> -laa conftest.cpp -o conftest
> In file included from conftest.cpp:5:
> /usr/include/avifile/fourcc.h:4:2: warning: #warning Use #include 
> "avm_fourcc.h" instead
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/3.3/../../../../i486-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
> cannot find -laa
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> The real issue is the -laa returned by avifile-config --libs. Is this the 
> Ascii Art library? This is a suse 8.2 box running the latest and greatest 
> updates.

libaa is the Ascii Art library, yes. Not sure what avifile wants with
that.
Does 
    ldconfig /usr/(local/)/bin/aviplay
show libaa, too?
If yes you are missing a library path. If not, you should try to remove
-laa from the avifile-config shell script.

Greetings

Matthias