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Convert SVCD to DVD
Authored by: ropers on Feb 21, '05 12:41:02AM
I grabbed the mpgtx-1.3.1.tar.gz source package from http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/ as suggested by robg.

As per the README, I then tried
$ ./configure --parachute
in the extracted directory. (NB: The $ merely denotes that I typed this at the Terminal prompt.)
So far so good. I then proceeded to
$ make
The results were good. I went on to
$ make install
Error. Error. Does not compute. It turns out that the resulting install script uses the "d" flag of the cp command (cf. $ man cp). That flag does not exist in Mac OS X's cp command. Neither does it, for that matter exist in some other BSD operating systems, eg. it's not in OpenBSD's cp either.
Only Linux cp appears to have the "d" flag.
It seemed to me that the "R" flag appeared to be BSD cp's equivalent of the "d" flag.

Okay, time for a fat disclaimer:
I DO NOT REALLY KNOW WHAT I'M DOING. I THINK THE BELOW MIGHT BE A SOLUTION, BUT I COULD BE TOTALLY WRONG. DON'T BLAME ME IF YOU HOSE YOUR SYSTEM.

So I edited the file named "Makefile" and replaced

cpflags=d
with
cpflags=R

I then again did
$ make install

That seemed to work. If you can confirm that this is a valid solution, then please also consider feeding back this info to the author of mpgtx. I haven't done that now because my confidence in the validity of my solution isn't all that high.


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