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| -rw-r--r-- | multimedia/vlc/README | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | multimedia/vlc/vlc.SlackBuild | 10 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/multimedia/vlc/README b/multimedia/vlc/README index 5490cd6e4c30e..0ac727b531d3d 100644 --- a/multimedia/vlc/README +++ b/multimedia/vlc/README @@ -28,10 +28,22 @@ This support also requires additional SBo packages wayland-egl and wayland-protocols. It also depends on the qt5 package having been built with wayland support i.e. wayland package was installed when the qt5 package was built. - + +By default, the vlc runtime is not able to be run as root. This +security feature may be side stepped by building vlc with the RUNASROOT +environment variable set e.g. + RUNASROOT=yes sh vlc.SlackBuild + +Some versions of the automatically deteced optional libaom package are +incompatible with this version of vlc (the build will fail with an +incompatible libaom). Such an incompatible libaom may be ignored +during building by setting the LIBAOM environmant variable to "no" +e.g. + LIBAOM=no sh vlc.SlackBuild Please advise the maintainer to suggest support for any further options. + *NOTES* - the qt4 interface seems not to be working ATM so the qt5 one is enabled by default: this means qt5 is a new mandatory dependency diff --git a/multimedia/vlc/vlc.SlackBuild b/multimedia/vlc/vlc.SlackBuild index 011a9b62da640..4f21102ecd896 100644 --- a/multimedia/vlc/vlc.SlackBuild +++ b/multimedia/vlc/vlc.SlackBuild @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # modified to build VLC only, shared libraries needed. # Copyright (c) 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011 Eric Hameleers, Eindhoven, Netherlands -# Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Christoph Willing, Brisbane, Australia +# Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Christoph Willing, Brisbane, Australia # # Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for # any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that @@ -100,6 +100,12 @@ else fi fi +# Enable vlc to be run as root +runasroot=""; [ "${RUNASROOT:-no}" != "no" ] && runasroot="--enable-run-as-root" + +# Disable use of libaom +libaom=""; [ "${LIBAOM:-yes}" = "no" ] && libaom="--disable-aom" + autoreconf -fiv chown -R root:root . @@ -123,6 +129,8 @@ LDFLAGS="$SLKLDFLAGS" \ $qtversion \ $wayland \ $opencv \ + $runasroot \ + $libaom \ --enable-merge-ffmpeg \ --enable-libva=no \ --with-kde-solid=no \ |