Bug 333673 – media-video/vlc-1.1.2 fails to compile missing libpng12.la

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description M. B. 2010-08-20 17:58:51 UTC]

configure fails here:

/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libpng12.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[5]: *** [liblibass_plugin.la] Fehler 1
make[5]: *** Warte auf noch nicht beendete Prozesse...
make[5]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-1.1.2/work/vlc-1.1.2/modules/codec'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-1.1.2/work/vlc-1.1.2/modules/codec'
make[3]: *** [all] Fehler 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-1.1.2/work/vlc-1.1.2/modules/codec'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-1.1.2/work/vlc-1.1.2/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-1.1.2/work/vlc-1.1.2'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2
 [31;01m*[0m ERROR: media-video/vlc-1.1.2 failed:
 [31;01m*[0m   died running emake, base_src_make
 [31;01m*[0m 
 [31;01m*[0m Call stack:
 [31;01m*[0m     ebuild.sh, line   48:  Called src_compile
 [31;01m*[0m   environment, line 4169:  Called base_src_compile
 [31;01m*[0m   environment, line  812:  Called base_src_make
 [31;01m*[0m   environment, line  850:  Called die
 [31;01m*[0m The specific snippet of code:
 [31;01m*[0m           emake "$@" || die "died running emake, $FUNCNAME";
 [31;01m*[0m 
 [31;01m*[0m If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =media-video/vlc-1.1.2',
 [31;01m*[0m the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =media-video/vlc-1.1.2'.
 [31;01m*[0m The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-1.1.2/temp/build.log'.
 [31;01m*[0m The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-1.1.2/temp/environment'.
 [31;01m*[0m S: '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-1.1.2/work/vlc-1.1.2'



additionally i checked:
$ equery f libpng | grep .la
/usr/lib/libpng.la
/usr/lib/libpng14.la

Installed are both libpng-1.2.44 and 1.4.3.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to emerge vlc
2. watch in awe

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2010-08-20 18:09:34 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 329871 ***