Description Ben Woods 2014-09-03 14:15:17 UTC

Plexhometheater is unable to play videos, with some of the following error messages appearing in the logs depending on the codec of the video being played.

ERROR: Unable to load /usr/local/lib/plexhometheater/system/players/dvdplayer/avcodec-53-x86-freebsd.so, reason: /usr/local/bin/system/players/dvdplayer/avcodec-53-x86_64-freebsd.so: Undefined symbol "ff_h264dsp_init_x86"

ERROR: Unable to load /usr/local/lib/plexhometheater/system/players/dvdplayer/avcodec-53-x86-freebsd.so, reason: /usr/local/bin/system/players/dvdplayer/avcodec-53-x86_64-freebsd.so: Undefined symbol "ff_mlp_init_x86"

This is similar to PR181964 filed previously for multimedia/gstreamer-ffmpeg
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181964

This issue is caused as during port build some variables not defined in MAKE_ENV/MAKE_ARGS are leaked to do-build target via .MAKEFLAGS rule in bsd.port.mk. According to make(1) man page variable assignments in MAKEFLAGS are treated as those on command line which means they override assignments in Makefiles.

Unfortunately, this breaks building arch-specific code for libavcodec as $(ARCH) in config.mak is no longer honored.

Fix: Rename the variable from ARCH to FFMPEG_ARCH, as is done in multimedia/ffmpeg.