configure will fail to pick up giflib 5 and, because the ebuild does not force it, mplayer will build but without gif support. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 338948 [details] Fixed ebuild which forces gif on when giflib >= 5 is used This is necessary as the test fails due to gif_lib.h now requiring sys/types.h as a prerequisite, which the mplayer test doesn't allow for.
Created attachment 338950 [details, diff] Patch for mplayer when it does attempt to build with giflib 5
is this patch from upstream ?
No, I wrote it.
(In reply to comment #4) > No, I wrote it. could you please post it to mplayer-dev-eng so that it can be reviewed and i can include it?
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2013-April/071595.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------ r36367 | al | 2013-07-27 17:16:06 -0400 (Sat, 27 Jul 2013) | 24 lines Support newer GIFLIB versions Work with GIFLIB version >= 4.2 from mplayer svn log: it should be fixed in -9999