The configure script of mplayer fails to locate fribidi if the --with-fribidi-config="pkg-config fribidi" is not explicitly specified. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mplayer with +bidi USE Actual Results: configure script fails silently about not finding fribidi libs and mplayer is being built without it. Expected Results: Mplayer with bidi support
Should be fixed upstream in r30175.
And indeed it is fixed .. Mplayer ebuild should be just updated then ...