current highest stable version of directfb is 0.9.12 current highest stable version of libstl is 1.2.5-r1 libsdl (all stable versions I checked) use the symbol DSPF_RGB15 defined in directfb/directfb.h. The symbol in this file was changed (see http://directfb.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/DirectFB/include/directfb.h revision 1.163 comment) to DSPF_ARGB1555. This change causes all current stable versions of libsdl to fail during compilation. I found this during a fresh (stage1) install of gentoo 1.4-rc2. Any new installs of gentoo using stable only packages and asking for libsdl seem destined to encounter this problem. Using: USE="-directfb" emerge sdl seems to make no difference. possible solutions: 1) mark directfb-0.9.12.ebuild as developmental, causing 0.9.11-r1 to be installed in stable boxen 2) update the libsdl sources to use the new DSPF_ARGB1555 symbol 3) manually select directfb-0.9.11-r1.ebuild Option #3 works for me. This ticket may be similar (but is not related) to another libsdl bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10863
actually the better solution is to unmask the newer directfb
unmasking newer directfb will lead to b0rkages in a lot of places because of the library incompatibilities -- people will need to remerge everything which links to libdirectfb's so
this could just be left until libsdl-1.2.6 comes out ... or if you look at the libsdl cvs tree, they've fixed compatibility with directfb ... i still suggest we unmask latest directfb ;)
works with DirectFB 0.9.17 & libsdl 1.2.5-r1 here (gcc 3.2.2)
closing now
