Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 206674
amsn webcam libraries not found
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:43 EST
Description of problem: It semms that the Fedora amsn does not detect webcams due to the fact that it does not find some files at the right place (e.g. capture.so etc.). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.96-0.13.rc1.fc6 (but other versions probably have the same problem). How reproducible: Account->Preferences->Other->Configure Webcam and see if your webcam appears, Additional info: The RPM provides by the amsn team (0.96RC1-1.fc4) does work properly w.r.t. the webcam. I will post a patch for the Fedora RPM when I have made one (maybe next Monday), it may be just adding a symlink to /usr/share/amsn or so.
I looked and can't reproduce the problem. Where is your capture.so located? Also in the same dir should be a file pkgIndex.tcl, is it there? Finally can you give me the result of: echo "puts $::auto_path; exit" | wish
As per your spec file, capture.so is in /usr/lib/capture/capture.so. The file pkgIndex.tcl is indeed in the same directory (/usr/lib/capture). The output of your command is: /usr/share/tcl8.4 /usr/share /usr/lib /usr/share/tcl8.4/tcllib-1.8 /usr/share/tk8.4 More to follow later... P.S. Apart from this problem, I'd suggest to put the lib stuff below /usr/lib/amsn, not directly under /usr/lib, as now it pollutes /usr/lib too much with package-specific stuff, IMHO.
Attached a patch to the spec file that works for me. It basically adds symlinks into /usr/lib for all the stuff moved from /usr/share/asmn. Furthermore, I've put the lib stugg in /usr/lib/amsn and I removed the duplicate slashes from the spec file (%{_datadir} etc already start with a slash), which makes the patch look much bigger than the changes are. Feel free to use my patches for future releases of amsn (or not).
Created attachment 136635 [details] Patch for amsn.spec.
Hmm if I see the output of your commands then it *should* work. Can you open up amsn, then make sure the contactlist is the active windows, and press CTRL+S. In the window that pops up please type in: package require capture let me know of the output. About your patch: I agree with the removal of the extra slashes in front of %{_datadir} etc. in the files section you also changed: -%{_datadir}/%{name}/ +%{_datadir}/%{name} This I don't like because for style you can add the / to make clear it is a dir, not a file. The stuff in libdir is there since other programs can also use it, if they want.
Output of that command: [10:30:20] Executing : package require capture [10:30:20] 0.4 When I start "your" amsn from the command line, I see no output. When I start the version from the modified package, I see: vid-probe: trying: v4l2... open(/dev/video0): No such file or directory open(/dev/video1): No such file or directory open(/dev/video2): No such file or directory open(/dev/video3): No such file or directory vid-probe: trying: v4l... open(/dev/video0): No such file or directory open(/dev/video1): No such file or directory open(/dev/video2): No such file or directory open(/dev/video3): No such file or directory (at this moment no webcam is plugged in, when I have one, it is found here). So, there is a difference and this makes it not work for me...
I'll have to look deeper into this, I prefer to solve this without symlinks. There is no obvious reason it doesn't work that I can think of.
fixed in the latest build (0.96-2) can you please test and close the bug if it works?
closing the bug, feel free to re-open if the issue still exists