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It's already described here — viewtopic.php?f=34&t=76148
I've noticed that when I build VLC from source code, taken from here — http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.0/, all works fine. The problem occurs only when I build VLC from git, but only one difference I noticed is that source from tarbal is already bootstrapped, but all the rest configuration and dependencies options are the same.
I am confused and do not know what I am doing wrong. Please, help me

Drag and drop doesn't work too.

1.1.0-git or 1.2.0-git?

1.1.0-git or 1.2.0-git?

1.2.0-git Twoflower (revision 1.1.0-pre1-1132-gc38d7ca)

Then this might be a 1.2.0 regression

Then this might be a 1.2.0 regression

I had this problem with 1.1.0 too.

But you said that the downloaded 1.1.0 works?

I had this problem with 1.1.0-git too, but compiled from here http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.0/ works well. And the problem hasn't disappeared with 1.2.0-git

This problem is already existed even before the 1.1.0 release. This is why I surprised, because you make the 1.1.0 tarball from source code, with whom I had the problem, but when I build VLC from this tarball — I do not have any problems. But what is the difference? The only one difference I know is that the source in tarball is already bootstrapped. Can this be a reason?

Just now I again rebuilt VLC from tarball and from git. The first works fine but the second does not.

Try to checkout the tag.

Is it correct: git archive --format=tar --remote=/var/abs/local/yaourtbuild/vlc-git/src/vlc 1.1.0-pre1 > vlc.tar?

I guess your system lacks the gettext development files, which causes the iconv autodetection to fail.

With the 1.1.0-pre1 tag all works fine.

I guess your system lacks the gettext development files, which causes the iconv autodetection to fail.

Why then iconv can detect encoding and a file opens, when VLC isn't running yet? I've get the error message only when VLC is already running and I click on a file in dolphin.

The autoconf M4 macros for iconv is missing that's all.

The autoconf M4 macros for iconv is missing that's all.

Where did it go?

Hi. This issue makes VLC very uncomfortable, have you any plans to fix it?

How exactly are we supposed to fix missing packages on your computer?

How exactly are we supposed to fix missing packages on your computer?

Oops, sorry, I'm misunderstood. If I'm not mistaken, you use Arch Linux too? Can you please tell me which a package I've missed?

gettext devel, whatever it's called.

Hi, I can't find anything, that I could miss — http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/8826/159b.png. Also right now I build the 1.1.0-pre1 tag and all works fine. What's changed?