vlc misses a WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.8 inorder to make it compile on systems lacking the correct automake version. Compiling without the correct automake causes an error: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking vlc-0.8.5.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.5-r5/work >>> Unpacking vlc-patches-27.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.5-r5/work * Applying various patches (bugfixes/updates) ... * 000_all_glide.patch ... [ ok ] * 010_all_freetype-font.patch ... [ ok ] * 020_all_matroska-shared.patch ... [ ok ] * 060_all_pic-mmx.patch ... [ ok ] * 080_all_fbsd-swap.patch ... [ ok ] * 110_all_dtspic.patch ... [ ok ] * 111_all_ffmpegplugin.patch ... [ ok ] * 130_all_textrels.patch ... [ ok ] * 140_all_directfb.patch ... [ ok ] * 150_all_w32codecs.patch ... [ ok ] * 151_all_corba.patch ... [ ok ] * 160_all_ffmpeg-remove-internal.patch ... [ ok ] * 170_all_http-stream-title.patch ... [ ok ] * 180_all_faad.patch ... [ ok ] * 190_all_strict-aliasing.patch ... [ ok ] * 200_all_nonpermissive.patch ... [ ok ] * 210_all_parallelinstall.patch ... [ ok ] * 220_all_firefox.patch ... [ ok ] * Done with patching * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.5-r5/work/vlc-0.8.5' ... * Running aclocal -I m4 ... [ !! ]
Thanks, fixed now.
