This is my first bug post, please excuse anything I might do wrong. I've posted to the gentoo forums about this here: http://forums.gentoo.org//viewtopic-t-392663.html Basically, when I try and emerge VLC, it fails during the configuration process. It says that my version of libmpeg2 is too old, yet I have the most recent version installed! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # emerge vlc Actual Results: compile fails during configuration (preliminary output, then the FLAC lines included for a point of reference: ) checking FLAC/stream_decoder.h usability... yes checking FLAC/stream_decoder.h presence... yes checking for FLAC/stream_decoder.h... yes checking mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h usability... no checking mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" configure: WARNING: mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------ ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the vlc lists. ## configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------ ## checking for mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h... yes checking for libmpeg2 version >= 0.3.2... no configure: error: Your libmpeg2 is too old (you need the cvs version): you may get a more recent one from http://libmpeg2.sf.net/. Alternatively you can use --disable-libmpeg2 to disable the libmpeg2 plugin. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2-r2/work/vlc-0.8.2/config.log !!! ERROR: media-video/vlc-0.8.2-r2 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 495, Exitcode 0 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: Expect configuration to complete, followed by compile. It should have accepted the version of libmpeg2 that I have! Note: # cat /usr/include/mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h | grep MPEG2_RELEASE #define MPEG2_RELEASE MPEG2_VERSION (0, 4, 0) /* 0.4.0 */ # emerge -pv vlc ...(just vlc comes up)... [ebuild N ] media-video/vlc-0.8.2-r2 -3dfx +X +a52 +aac +aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts +bidi +cdda -corba -daap -debug +dts +dvb +dvd +esd +fbcon +ffmpeg +flac +freetype +ggi +gnutls +httpd +joystick +libcaca -lirc +live +matroska -mod +mp3 +mpeg +ncurses +nls +nsplugin +ogg +opengl +oss +png -samba +screen +sdl +speex +stream +svg +svga +theora +unicode +v4l +vcd +vlm +vorbis +wxwindows +xml2 +xosd +xv 0 kB # emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ipv6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 16bit 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib aim aimextras allegro alsa amarok amr ao aotuv apm applet aqua_theme arts artworkextra asm asterisk async atlas auctex audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bl blas blender-game bmp bonobo boo browserplugin bzip2 c++ cairo calendar carbone_theme cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cg clamav clamd clanJavaScript clanVoice clisp cln cmucl config_wizard cpdflib cpudetection crypt cscope css ctype cups curl curlwrappers dbase dbus dga dio directfb divx4linux djbfft djvu dmx dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eds effects emboss encode epiphany esd evo exif faad fam fame fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac flash font-server fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fpx freetype ftp gb gcj gcl gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint ginac glgd glibc-compat20 glitz glut glx gnome gnome-print gnomecanvas gnomedb gnuplot gnustep gnutls gphoto2 gpm gs gsl gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile gzip hal hddtemp howl httpd icq id3 image imagemagick imlib imlib2 inkjar insecure-savers ipv6 j2ee jabber jack java javascript joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux kig-scripting ladcca ladspa lame lapack latex libcaca libdv libdvdread libfame libg++ libsamplerate libvisual libwww live lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzo lzw mad math matroska maya-shaderlibrary mcal memlimit metar mikmod mime ming mixer mjpeg mjpegtools mmx mmx2 mmxext mng mono motif mozcalendar mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer msn msnextras musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli mythtv nas nautilus ncurses net netbeans network nextaw nls nsplugin nspr nvidia objc ocaml octave offensive ogg oggvorbis ogre openal openexr opengl openssl osc oscar oss pam pango parse-clocks pascal pdf pdfkit pdflib perl physfs player plotutils plugin png posix povray print python qhull qt quicktime quotes rar rdesktop readline real recode rhythmbox rss ruby sametime sbcl scanner screen sdl sensord shorten shout silc slang sndfile sockets speech speex spell sql sqlite sse sse-filters sse2 ssl stream subp subtitles svg svga svgz symlink t1lib tcltk tcpd tetex text theora threads thumbnail tidy tiff toolbar transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd videos vim-pager vim-with-x visualization vlm voice vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xanim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zip zlib userland_GNU elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Note in the gentoo forums link, I was able to manually get the config & compile to finish by disabling libmpeg2, but that doesn't really solve the problem.
Attach your config.log
Created attachment 71060 [details] /var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2-r2/work/vlc-0.8.2/config.log
Sorry that I forgot to attach that in the first place, Diego.
You have spurious headers in /usr/local .
Ok, thanks for taking a look at this Diego. My apologies for submitting it as a real bug, since it apparently isn't. Mind you, I've no idea how to resolve this problem, but its a start! (I understand what your saying, but not knowledgeable enough to correct it myself.) Thanks again!
Remove the libmpeg2 library and headers that you have in /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib, else VLC tries to use a copy you installed by yourself and it's not under portage control, failing because that is not the good one.
(adding comment for Resolved Invalid completeness.) Thanks for the help! I don't recall trying to add mpeg2 stuff outside of portage, but apparently I must have. I went into the the two directories and removed the mpeg2 stuff there (as well as some other stuff that I know I'd added and don't want now.) emerge now gives these config replacement lines: checking mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h usability... yes checking mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h presence... yes checking for mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h... yes checking for libmpeg2 version >= 0.3.2... yes and continues on to the compile! Thanks for the effort to help me solve this issue, Diego. Again, my apologies for submitting a "bug" when it turns out it wasn't one. Your assistance is very much appreciated, Diego! Tony S.
