[Linphone-users] configure can't find libv4l2

[Bent Bagger]

Hi list

I have been away from the list for a while, so this issue may have been 
handled recently, although I cannot find anything in the mailing list 
archives.

I'm in the process of building Linphone 3.4.3 from sources on my 
openSUSE 11.4 system. The reason for this is that I would like to get 
h264 support, and that is not supplied with the Linphone package from 
the Suse repositories.

The configure script for mediastreamer finishes with this discouraging 
message:

checking for LIBV4L2... no
No libv4l2 found.
checking for LIBV4L1... no
No libv4l1 found.
configure: error:
Missing libv4l2. It is highly recommended to build with
libv4l2 headers and library. Many camera will won't work or will crash
your application if libv4l2 is not installed.
If you know what you are doing, you can use --disable-libv4l to disable
this check.


Since I don't know what I'm doing in this context I would like some 
advise on how to proceed. Suse's package manager Yast does not show 
anything other that the library itself - not a devel-package as I would 
expect.

Does a devel-package for libv4l2 exist, and if so where do I find it?

If not, what then? Should I be brave and disable libv4l? My camera is a 
UVC type (Logitech C 950)

/Bent