-$Id: README.Debian,v 1.2 2003/02/02 17:18:47 sam Exp $
+$Id$
Notes for anyone wanting to build Debian packages of VLC.
- Default configuration is supposed to be latest unstable.
- - To build for a Debian woody system, use debian/woody-buildpackage.
+ - To build for a Debian woody system, first build a tarball using
+ "make dist-woody".
- - Usually VLC will come with a copy of ffmpeg and faad2 in the extras/
- directory, because they are not yet available in Debian.
+ - Usually VLC will come with a copy of ffmpeg, faad2 and x264 in the
+ extras/ directory, because they are not yet available in Debian.
- If there is no CVS directory in the root, debian/rules will assume a
- full build is requested and will clean ffmpeg and faad2.
+ full build is requested and will clean ffmpeg, faad2 and x264.
- VLC does not link with libdvdcss by default, thus it will not depend
- on the libdvdcss packages. To build packages that link against it,
- remove the --without-dvdcss flag in debian/rules.
+ on the libdvdcss packages. However it will use libdvdread that can
+ optionally open libdvdcss if found. To build packages that link directly
+ against libdvdcss, remove the --without-dvdcss flag in debian/rules.