Bug 132655 – qemu-0.8.* is unable to detect SDL

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michael Baer 2006-05-08 02:37:10 UTC]

qemu-0.8.* is unable to detect installed SDL-library. configure fails with this errormessage:

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Calculating dependencies... done!
Install prefix    /usr
BIOS directory    /usr/share/qemu
binary directory  /usr/bin
Manual directory  /usr/share/man
ELF interp prefix /usr/gnemul/qemu-%M
Source path       /var/tmp/portage/qemu-softmmu-0.8.1/work/qemu-0.8.1
C compiler        gcc
Host C compiler   gcc
make              make
install           install
host CPU          i386
host big endian   no
target list       i386-softmmu ppc-softmmu sparc-softmmu x86_64-softmmu arm-softmmu mips-softmmu
gprof enabled     no
profiler          no
static build      no
SDL support       no
mingw32 support   no
Adlib support     no
CoreAudio support no
ALSA support      no
DSound support    no
FMOD support      no
kqemu support     yes
Documentation     yes
ERROR: QEMU requires SDL or Cocoa for graphical output
To build QEMU without graphical output configure with --disable-gfx-check
Note that this will disable all output from the virtual graphics card.

!!! ERROR: app-emulation/qemu-softmmu-0.8.1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1525:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 928:   Called src_compile
  qemu-softmmu-0.8.1.ebuild, line 82:   Called die

!!! could not configure
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
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"sdl-config --version" shows 1.2.9, greater than expected 1.2.1

"emerge --info"
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Portage 2.1_pre10-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r2, 2.6.16.14 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.16.14 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r6, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18
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-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc /var/www/localhost/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks loadpolicy metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/my-ebuilds /usr/local/overlays/java-experimental"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X a52 acl acpi alsa apache2 apm arts asf avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 calendar caps cgi cli crypt cups curl dba dga doc dri drm dvd eds emboss encode esd flatfile foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mhash mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl objc offensive ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib pear perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection scanner sdl session soap sockets socks5 spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vcd vhosts vorbis win32codecs x264 xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xsl xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_vesa video_cards_fglrx"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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[Comment 1 Michael Baer 2006-05-08 03:40:50 UTC]

Solved by re-emerging libsdl