Bug 47180

Summary:	xvid versions higher than 0.9.1 cause the xvid detection code in avifile to fail
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Charles Pence <charles>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Charles Pence 2004-04-07 22:24:44 UTC

After emerging any version of xvid greater than 0.9.1 (tested with 0.9.2 and the latest 1.0.0_rc2), the code in avifile's configure script which detects the presence of the xvid library fails, which prevents avifile from knowing that xvid exists, though it's definitely installed on the machine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unmerge any current versions of xvid and avifile.
2. Emerge any version of xvid greater than 0.9.1.
3. Emerge avifile.

Actual Results:  
This is the exact message printed by avifile's configure script.

checking for xvid.h... yes
checking for xvid_init in -lxvidcore... no
configure: warning: Could not run XviD test program,
checking why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. [...]

Expected Results:  
Obviously, it should be detected, but some poking around on the internet reveals
this is a problem in the avifile codebase, NOT in the ebuild.  Therefore, the
ebuild for avifile should be labelled with a dependency for xvid > 0.9.0 and <
0.9.2.

Comment 1 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-14 01:03:12 UTC

You forgot to mention the avifile version.

Comment 2 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-12 00:08:07 UTC

No reaction for a month -> closing