Hi, since I added USE="xvid" I cannot compile vlc. It fails when configure is running with: checking faad.h usability... yes checking faad.h presence... yes checking for faad.h... yes checking for faacDecOpen in -lfaad... yes checking xvid.h usability... yes checking xvid.h presence... yes checking for xvid.h... yes checking for xvid_init in -lxvidcore... no configure: error: Cannot find libxvidcore library... !!! ERROR: media-video/vlc-0.6.2-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed I have xvid-1.0.0_beta3 installed. And locate xvidcore says: inspiron linux-headers # locate xvidcore /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so /usr/lib/libxvidcore.a /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4 /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.2 /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4.0 /usr/portage/distfiles/xvidcore-1.0.0-beta3.tar.bz2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. inspiron linux-headers # emerge info Portage 2.0.50_pre16 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117-r0, 2.6.1-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi alsa arts avi berkdb cdr cups dvd emacs encode faad foomaticdb freetype gdbm gif gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib java jikes jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png pnp python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype type1 usb wmf wxwindows x86 xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib linguas_de"
The xvid api has changed significantly in the 1.0 tree the ebuild needs to be updated to use a pre 1.0 beta. This is a non issue with vlc 0.7 as xvid is no longer supported i believe. DaveEL
The xvid decoder is no longer being maintained in vlc, since the ffmpeg decoder has proven to be superior in most cases. suggested action is to --disable-xvid in all ebuilds 0.6.0 and up.
Closed this bug because in newer vlc versions this bug is fixed (, because USE='xvid' isn't supported anymore).
