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I am attempting to compile vlc from subversion on a standard buid of Fedora Core 3. However the bootstrap script is failing with the following:
...
+ autopoint -f
/usr/bin/autopoint: line 342: /usr/share/gettext/archive.tar.gz: No such file or directory
cvs checkout: cannot find module `archive' - ignored
find: archive: No such file or directory
find: archive: No such file or directory
autopoint: *** infrastructure files for version 0.11.5 not found; this is autopoint from GNU gettext-tools 0.14.1
autopoint: *** Stop.

I am not sure what is wrong.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in Advance

I would suspect you need the gettext-devel package.


Here is what I did to compile and install from subversion on Fedora Core 3.

Download the latest wxwindows (now refered to as wxWidgets)
1. Open a terminal window and extract it tar -xzvf wx*.tar.gz
2. cd wx*
3. ./configure --enable-shared
4. make
5. make install (must be root)
6. Edit /etc/ld.so.conf, add /usr/local/lib and save changes
7. /sbin/ldconfig

Donwload the latest vlc using subversion:
1. Make a new directory called svn
2. Open a terminal window and cd svn
3. Then type svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc-trunk
4. After downloading completes cd vlc-trunk
5. ./bootstrap
6. Find where your wx-config is find /usr -name 'wx-config'
7. ./configure --enable-wxwindows --with-wx-config-path=/usr/local/bin/wx-config (mine is in /usr/local/bin)
If you see any warnings where it cannot find such_and_such.pc file what it means is you are missing such_and_such-devel package.
8. make
9. make install (must be root)
10. Delete your ~/.vlc folder
11. vlc -vv -I wx


Gee
http://linux.brighthaven.com

After all is said and done there will be three ways of starting vlc:

vlc
svlc
wxvlc


svlc will automatically run with the skins2 interface which looks pretty darn spanky!

Many thanks

I have not yet been able to try this but will do so as soon as possible