gnomemeeting port fails

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 20:42, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 21:29:43 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root at pukruppa.de>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> > 
> > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 14:13, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > -CURRENT gnomemeeting port fails with
> > > >
> > > > 	--------------------------------------------
> > > > checking ldap.h presence... no
> > > > checking for ldap.h... no
> > > > configure: error: You need OpenLDAP's header files to build
> > > > GnomeMeeting
> > > > ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> > > >       Please report the problem to roger at FreeBSD.org [maintainer]
> > > > and attach
> > > >       the
> > > > "/usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting/work/gnomemeeting-0.98.5/config.log"
> > > >       including the output of the failure of your make command.
> > > > Also, it might
> > > >       be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages
> > > > installed on your
> > > >       system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`).
> > > > *** Error code 1
> > > >
> > > > Stop in /usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting.
> > > > *** Error code 1
> > > >
> > > > Stop in /usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting.
> > > > *** Error code 1
> > > >
> > > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2.
> > > > *** Error code 1
> > > > 	------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Do I HAVE to install openldap or is there a workaround for this?
> > >
> > > The error says to contact the maintainer.  He would know better if you
> > > have to install LDAP.  If you want to get gnomemeeting installed now, I
> > > would recommend you install one of the LDAP ports.
> > To be honest: I don't think I could use gnomemeeting, since my
> > logitech webcam isn't supported by freebsd.
> > Gnomemeeting simply makes my portupgrade if gnome2 fail.
> 
> I don't see quite why this is happening, but openldap20-client
> is in the dependencies list and it does install ldap.h. I suspect that
> this is tied to the separation of openLDAP into client and server
> packages.
> 
> In any case, install openldap20-client and gnomemeeting should build.
> 
> At this time FreeBSD is lacking the framework for any standardized
> video support which would be required for anything like standard
> video support. The only real video available is with the BKTR
> driver. This chip (BrooKTRee) is found in the majority of the video
> for windows boards including those from Hauppauge and Pinnacle. I use
> a cheap ($25 US) WinTV-Go card and it works.
> 
> You can use GnomeMeeting without a video card to participate in
> meetings. You will have full audio support and will receive video. You
> only lack video send capability.
> 
> I have found one problem with pwlib (upon which GnomeMeeting is built)
> in that it will re-read the same video frame over and over again,
> eating up all available CPU IF THERE IS NO MOVEMENT. 
> 
> This is a problem with the video4bsd module and can be worked around
> by adding a usleep at the start of the
> PVideoInputDevice::GetFrameDataNoDelay routine in
> /usr/ports/devel/pwlib/work/pwlib/src/ptlib/unix/video4bsd.cxx.
>   (void) usleep(33000); /* Don't keep reading the same frame! */
> 
> This is a ugly, ugly kludge and I can see some better ways to fix
> this, but I simply have not had time to look do this. (Volunteers are
> welcome!)

Have you pinged Roger about this?

Joe

> 
> Oh. I am not the maintainer, either. Just a regular GnomeMeeting user.
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