On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM Terje J. Hanssen
<terjejhanssen@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2/11/26 9:42 PM, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM Andrew Randrianasulu
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 11:24 PM Terje J. Hanssen
<terjejhanssen@gmail.com> wrote:


On 2/11/26 9:15 PM, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM Terje J. Hanssen
<terjejhanssen@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2/11/26 8:59 PM, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:



ср, 11 февр. 2026 г., 22:51 Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen@gmail.com>:

On 2/11/26 6:35 PM, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:



ср, 11 февр. 2026 г., 20:28 Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen@gmail.com>:

On 2/11/26 3:52 PM, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:



ср, 11 февр. 2026 г., 17:46 Terje J. Hanssen <terjejhanssen@gmail.com>:

On 2/11/26 2:48 PM, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:



On 2/11/26 2:32 PM, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:


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8) Build procedure further from here?

Where does the bld_dynamic.sh script fit in?

./configure --with-single-user --disable-static-build --without-thirdparty

(there are some typos in the manual: "confgure" instead of "configure" pdf page 12, 13. 653)

setting CFLAGS?

should not be necessary, but you can try and see if it fails :)

I think --with-single-user is safer, and you can use

bld_appimage.sh

for appimage-ing result of (hopefully successful) compilation.

Note, I did not tried this with dynamic cingg build ... Hopefully
appimagetool will only add loaders and not whole .. hw driver stack.

I think blds/bld_dynamic.sh is maintainer script more than user script

It was not updated to new git protocol (https vs git)

So you probably can skip it and just manually use your
"--without-thirdparty --with-single-user --disable-static-build"
configure line,
and then make and make install

test and appimage it



Or possibly a configure line like this to include link to my system ffmpeg?

"--without-thirdparty --with-single-user --disable-static-build --with-ffmpeg=/usr/bin/ffmpeg"

or possibly?

./configure --with-single-user --disable-static-build --without-thirdparty --without-libdpx --with-external-ffmpeg

or alternatively (not sure about what is valid syntax) ?

./configure --with-single-user --disable-static-build --without-thirdparty --without-libdpx --with-systeml-ffmpeg

A Quick Comparison from Google/ai tells (does not need to be correct):

--with-external-ffmpeg Uses the specific FFmpeg version bundled in the Cinelerra thirdparty/ directory.
--with-system-ffmpeg Uses the FFmpeg libraries already installed on your OS

you can use configure --help to see supported arguments.


Yeah, but unhappily it won't work here:

cd /home3/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1 #

./configure --help
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

where is it?
My thought was that "configure" isn't executable (yet)?

It does not exist yet.

Run ./autogen.sh and it will hopefully generate it from configure.ac


Issue with ./autogen.sh and ./configure which worked earlier on Slowroll.
Tried to install dh-autoreconf, but this didn't solve it

#  cd /home3/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1

./autogen.sh
+ rm -f global_config configure Makefile Makefile.in
+ rm -f aclocal.m4 depcomp compile install-sh ltmain.sh
+ rm -f config.log config.guess config.h config.h.in config.sub config.status missing
+ rm -rf autom4te.cache m4
+ '[' '' = clean ']'
+ mkdir m4
+ autoreconf --install
./autogen.sh: line 12: autoreconf: command not found
++ uname -o
+ '[' GNU/Linux = Android ']'
+ '[' -e /system/bin/app_process ']'


# zypper se autoreconf

Try *just* autoconf ?


# autoconf
  autoconf: command not found

Try to install it ?

Sorry, I thought "autoconf" was a build-included command, but

# autoconf
configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
       See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:12: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AS

This is weird .. I downloaded package

https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=openSUSE%3AFactory&package=autoconf

and autoreconf seems to be there, in usual /usr/bin place!


I have

which autoreconf
/usr/bin/autoreconf



One thing I noted that autoreconf actually is a Perl script!

file /usr/bin/autoreconf
/usr/bin/autoreconf: Perl script text executable


on this noarch rpm and on my Slackware

So be sure you can run perl ?


I have perl and a lot of perl- packages installed.

/home3/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1 # autoreconf
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 299.
autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 2

aclocal must be in

https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=openSUSE%3AFactory&package=automake

install THIS too.

• suse|leap (LTS, enterprise, older versions)
• tumbleweed|slowroll (rolling new versions and packages)

# zypper info dh-autoreconf

Information for package dh-autoreconf:
--------------------------------------
Repository     : Main Repository (OSS)
Name           : dh-autoreconf
Version        : 19-3.18
Arch           : noarch
Vendor         : openSUSE
Installed Size : 22.8 KiB
Installed      : Yes
Status         : up-to-date
Source package : dh-autoreconf-19-3.18.src
Upstream URL   : http://www.debian.org
Summary        : Add-on for debhelper to call autoreconf and clean up after the build
Description    :
    dh-autoreconf provides a debhelper sequence addon named 'autoreconf' and
    two commands, dh_autoreconf and dh_autoreconf_clean.

    The dh_autoreconf command creates a list of the files and their checksums,
    calls autoreconf and then creates a second list for the new files.

    The dh_autoreconf_clean command compares these two lists and removes all
    files which have been added or changed (files may be excluded if needed).

    For CDBS users, a rule is provided to call the dh-autoreconf programs at
    the right time.


And "configure" is not created yet

/home3/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1 # ls conf*
configure.ac

---------

I comparison what I get from my old build installation (same Slowroll):

/home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1 # ./configure --help | grep ffmpeg
  --enable-ffmpeg         build ffmpeg (yes)
  --with-git-ffmpeg       git ffmpeg using url (no)








https://software.opensuse.org/package/autoconf




dh is some Debian helper, not sure what it supposed to do on Suse .....


output from the ./autogen.sh above


    | dh-autoreconf | Add-on for debhelper to call autoreconf and clean up after the build | package


# zypper in dh-autoreconf

Resolving package dependencies...

The following 2 recommended packages were automatically selected:
   perl-Archive-Cpio perl-File-FcntlLock

The following 7 NEW packages are going to be installed:
   debhelper dh-autoreconf dpkg perl-Archive-Cpio perl-Archive-Zip perl-File-FcntlLock strip-nondeterminism


ls -la *sh configure*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   408 Feb 10 23:13 autogen.sh
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  3584 Feb 10 23:13 bld_appimage.sh
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   536 Feb 10 23:13 bld.sh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 44376 Feb 10 23:13 configure.ac
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   310 Feb 10 23:13 inst.sh

The closest
chmod 755 configure.ac
ls -la configure*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 44376 Feb 10 23:13 configure.ac

./configure --help
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

./configure.ac --help
./configure.ac: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `[2.69]'
./configure.ac: line 2: `AC_PREREQ([2.69])'

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Further, I've tried to compare with what were suggested for my earlier build, and try to figure out if here are two procedures/scripts to follow and what is the difference:

Andrew replied:
https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/archives/list/cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org/message/M5JB2BBXD4LD54BBR36UH6VDWUYMJFRU/

     2) - cd to directory where ./autogen.sh located.
     2a - set additional environment variables if you need so via export command
     3) run ./autogen.sh
     4) run ./configure with all switches you need. (for first try probably
--with-single-user so build will be user-local, no need for installing into
system)

my current build uses
"./configure --with-single-user --with-git-ffmpeg=https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git"

but ffmpeg.git can be broken at any time by ffmpeg development process :(

     5) run make
     6) if doing single user build also run make install
    7) run it from same directory as bin/cin (you can "ls bin" just to see if
all files were build/installed)

MatN replied:
https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/archives/list/cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org/message/AOG6HP3WZNQJKK7CZT5G52PAQLDZVA4V/

     You need to do cd /home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1
     Then run "blds/bld_prepare.sh <os>" , where <os> is your os,

     run blds/bld_prepare.sh without argument to get a list of OS-ses.
     This installs the needed development packages for your OS.

     then (still in /home/cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1):

     in bld.sh, change the config options to what you want.

     ./bld.sh (if not making an AppImage)


At first look, the latter seems simpler with fewer steps if it works here; comments +/- ?

Well, I just tried to be a bit extra verbose, and spell out changes we needed back then for enabling openvpl and stuff (now it should be just configure switch).



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I had idea about adding configure switch (in addition to env variable?) to pick up libav* libs from standard location, but this idea only lives in my head for now.










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