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I am trying to compile the latest source 0.9.8.a (tarball) on MAC OS X (10.4.11).

I am trying to find out how to disable Fink, I dont see any .cshrc or .bashrc in my home directory:

drwxr-xr-x 13 xxxx xxxx 442 Jan 18 18:42 .
drwxrwxr-t 6 root admin 204 Jan 18 18:33 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 3 Jan 18 18:33 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw------- 1 xxxx xxxx 45 Jan 18 18:42 .bash_history
-rw------- 1 xxxx xxxx 678 Jan 18 18:38 .viminfo
drwx------ 3 xxxx xxxx 102 Jan 18 18:33 Desktop
drwx------ 3 xxxx xxxx 102 Jan 18 18:33 Documents
drwx------ 17 xxxx xxxx 578 Jan 18 18:33 Library
drwx------ 3 xxxx xxxx 102 Jan 18 18:33 Movies
drwx------ 3 xxxx xxxx 102 Jan 18 18:33 Music
drwx------ 3 xxxx xxxx 102 Jan 18 18:33 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 4 xxxx xxxx 136 Jan 18 18:33 Public
drwxr-xr-x 5 xxxx xxxx 170 Jan 18 18:33 Sites

Can you please help.

I tried moving on without disabling the Fink and got the following from the ./bootstrap

hagay-levys-computer:~/vlc-0.9.8a/extras/contrib itai$ ./bootstrap
++ gcc -dumpmachine
+ BUILD=i686-apple-darwin8
+ test 0 -ge 1
+ HOST=i686-apple-darwin8
+ DISTRO=
+ test 0 = 2
+ rm -f config.mak
+ echo '# Automatically generated by bootstrap.'
+ echo '# Make changes if you know what you'\''re doing.'
+ rm -f distro.mak
+ echo '# Automatically generated by bootstrap'
+ echo '# Make changes if you know what you'\''re doing.'
+ test i686-apple-darwin8 '!=' i686-apple-darwin8
+ echo 'HAVE_DARWIN_OS = 1'
+ echo 'HAVE_BSD = 1'
+ SDK_TARGET=10.4
+ echo 'SDK_TARGET = 10.4'
+ echo 'HAVE_DARWIN_OS_ON_INTEL = 1'
+ echo 'ENVP = MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4'
+ echo 'MACOSX_SDK = /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk'
+ CFLAGS_TUNING= -march=pentium-m -mtune=prescott
+ EXTRA_CFLAGS= -D${ENVP} -isysroot ${MACOSX_SDK} -mmacosx-version-min=${SDK_TARGET}
+ EXTRA_LDFLAGS= -isysroot ${MACOSX_SDK} -Wl,-syslibroot,${MACOSX_SDK}
+ echo 'PATH = /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin'
+ cat src/Distributions/darwin.mak
+ echo 'BUILD = i686-apple-darwin8'
+ echo 'HOST = i686-apple-darwin8'
++ pwd
+ echo 'PREFIX = /Users/itai/vlc-0.9.8a/extras/contrib'
+ echo 'CC = '
+ echo 'CXX = '
+ echo 'LD = '
+ echo 'RANLIB = '
+ echo 'AR = '
+ echo 'STRIP = '
+ echo 'EXTRA_CFLAGS = -march=pentium-m -mtune=prescott -D${ENVP} -isysroot ${MACOSX_SDK} -mmacosx-version-min=${SDK_TARGET}'
+ echo 'EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = -isystem $(PREFIX)/include'
+ echo 'EXTRA_LDFLAGS = -isysroot ${MACOSX_SDK} -Wl,-syslibroot,${MACOSX_SDK}'
+ echo 'EXTRA_PATH = '
+ wget --version
++ curl --version
+ test -z
++ which curl
+ echo 'WGET = /usr/bin/curl -L -O'
+ svn --version
+ echo 'You do not have a subversion client in your PATH.'
You do not have a subversion client in your PATH.
+ git --version
+ echo 'You do not have a Git client in your PATH.'
You do not have a Git client in your PATH.
+ test -z ''
+ set +x

***********************************************************
* If you are building contribs for a release build of VLC *
* Please run CONTRIBS_RELEASE=sexy ./bootstrap *
***********************************************************

I am using a tarball and not a GIT build, can you help me progress please.

do make now.

Did the make and failed with the following (I can attached the log if it is not enough)

touch .autoconf
/usr/bin/curl -L -O ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/gnu/make/make-3.81.tar.bz2
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1124k 100 1124k 0 0 13795 0 0:01:23 0:01:23 --:--:-- 125k
rm -rf gnumake || true
bunzip2 -c make-3.81.tar.bz2 | tar xf - --exclude='[*?:<>\|]'
mv make-3.81 gnumake || true
touch gnumake
(cd gnumake; ./configure --prefix=/Users/itai/vlc-0.9.8a/extras/contrib && make && make install)
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
make[1]: *** [.gnumake] Error 77
make: *** [all] Error 2

Can someone please help me with this.

J-B can you please help

Can someone help us here, please.

how did u came up with an answer? I'm having the same problem... can u help me?