Bug 81934 – amarok 1.2 won't compile with libvisual < 0.2 installed

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dave Pretty 2005-02-13 17:36:15 UTC]

all libvisual ebuild in portage are currently version < 0.2, so any libvisual installation will stop amarok compiling
after unmerging libvisual < 0.2, amarok 1.2 compiles fine.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Ian Monroe 2005-02-13 18:23:43 UTC]

This bug is not true. Without libvisual, configure continues and amaroK compiles fine without it. libvisual is optional for amaroK.

[Comment 2 Dave Pretty 2005-02-13 18:48:36 UTC]

the bug is true. 

the bug title states that the problem is with installing amarok-1.2 while libvisual < 0.2 is installed.  (although the problem was only tested with libvisual-0.1.6, not with 0.1.7, which is also in portage).

in the case where libvisual-0.1.6 installed:
 configure looks for libvisual>0.2, finds version 0.1.6 and tries to use that instead.
with no libvisual installed:
configure compiles amarok without libvisual support.

apologies if I'm not supposed to write bug reports on hard-masked ebuilds - time for me to check the docs.

[Comment 3 Alexandre Oliveira 2005-02-13 19:26:31 UTC]

I've just tested, and I can't confirm.
As Ian Monroe mentioned, it does not stop or fail, just disables libvisual support.
Compiling amarok having libvisual-0.1.6 or libvisual-0.1.7 installed worked as expected, i.e. amarok is compiled with libvisual support disabled.

[Comment 4 Dave Pretty 2005-02-13 20:07:35 UTC]

if no-one else can confirm this, then i suppose the problem could be related to something else -- I was upgrading a friend's computer for the first time in about a year -- although everything else was emerged up to date first, the system could be a bit our of whack. 

[Comment 5 Alexandre Oliveira 2005-02-14 12:26:44 UTC]

What's the error message you got?

[Comment 6 Dave Pretty 2005-02-14 15:04:43 UTC]

I don't have the access to the computer which gave the error message anymore, I'm pretty sure the error message was to do with not finding a libvisual header, and amarok compiled fine when libvisual was uninstalled. 

I tried installing amarok on my computer with libvisual-0.1.6 and it worked fine -- it doesn't try and compile libvisual support.

I'm pretty sure the error was configure - allowing libvisual support to be compiled for the wrong version. Given that the computer giving the error might have a flaky gentoo install, I'm happy to mark this bug invalid and be done with it.