Re: [xine-user] building aaxine

[Bill F. <bil...@mi...>]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Bryan Christ wrote:

> This is my second attempt to get some help on building aaxine
> (groveling for replies).  After looking at the source code, it appears
> that aaxine is no longer available as a standalone application, but
> instead the support for aalib is now merged into cacaxine (I can't
> find any documentation or announcements to verify this conclusion
> though).  If this is the case, I have no luck getting ccaxine to work
> with "cacaxine -V aa [filename]".  Running with debug turned on (-d)
> produces the following error message "main: video driver aa failed"
> 
> As best I can tell, I have indeed compiled xine-lib with aalib
> included.  Here are the configure flags I am using:
> 
> CFLAGS="-march=i686" --prefix=/usr --with-x
> 
> versions are:
> xine-lib 1.1.10
> xine-ui-0.99.5.tar.gz

Hi Bryan,

I think you need to install libcaca and libcaca-devel (or equivalent)
first and then rebuild xine.  I believe libcaca (Colour AsCii Art
library) is a replacement for aalib (Ascii Art library).

						-Bill