When emerging VLC 0.8.1-r1, the link fails with these errors: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wsign-compare -Wall -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -o vlc src/vlc-vlc.o lib/libvlc.a ./modules/misc/memcpy/libmemcpymmx.a ./modules/video_chroma/libi420_rgb_mmx.a ./modules/video_chroma/libi422_yuy2_mmx.a ./modules/video_chroma/libi420_ymga_mmx.a ./modules/video_chroma/libi420_yuy2_mmx.a ./modules/misc/memcpy/libmemcpymmxext.a ./modules/misc/memcpy/libmemcpy3dn.a ./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a ./modules/codec/libtheora.a -L/usr/lib -lhal -ldbus-1 -lrt -lpthread -ldl -lm -lavformat -lz -lavcodec -lm -ltheora -logg lib/libvlc.a(lib_libvlc_a-libvlc.o): In function `InitDeviceValues': libvlc.c:(.text+0x4d35): undefined reference to `hal_initialize' libvlc.c:(.text+0x4d4b): undefined reference to `hal_get_all_devices' libvlc.c:(.text+0x4d63): undefined reference to `hal_shutdown' libvlc.c:(.text+0x4d88): undefined reference to `hal_device_property_exists' libvlc.c:(.text+0x4db8): undefined reference to `hal_device_get_property_bool' libvlc.c:(.text+0x4dd6): undefined reference to `hal_device_get_property_string' libvlc.c:(.text+0x4e16): undefined reference to `hal_free_string' Emerge info: Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre12 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 16bit 3ds 7zip X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa amarok amd amr ao apache apache2 apm applet aqua_theme artworkextra asm atk audiofile automount avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts blender-game bmp bonobo bootsplash bzip2 c++ cairo canvas ccache cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cegui cg crypt cups curl dbus devil dhcp doc dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread editor eds effects emboss encode epiphany esd ethereal evolution examples exif expat fam fat fbcon ffmpeg flac floppyd fltk fluidsynth fmod foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gd gdb gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut glx gmail gmailtimestamps gnome gnome-print gnomecanvas gnomedb gnuplot gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl html http id3 idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irc irda jabber java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos kqemu lame lcd lcms ldap libg++ libwww logitech-mouse lzo mad mapeditor mikmod mmx mng motif mouse mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer musepack music musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network new-login nls nsplugin ntfs ntlm nvidia objc ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds python qemu-fast qt quicktime readline real reiserfs rss rtc ruby screen sdk sdl sounds speex spell sse ssl subversion tcpd tga theora tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4l v4l2 vim-with-x voice vorbis win32codecs wv wxwindows xanim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110581 ***