There seems to be a version problem between vlc and ffmpeg as of Apr 25, 2005. The only version of vlc marked as stable for x86 apparently expects a different version of the ffmpeg library that the one which emerge installed as a dependency for vlc : media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r3 media-video/vlc-0.6.2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r3 2. emerge =media-video/vlc-0.6.2 Actual Results: Compilation fails in at least two different places during the FFMPEG codec module compilation (see attachment). Expected Results: Successful compilation. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 9 2005, 10:37:16) ] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gnustep gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mime motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nis ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vcd vorbis wifi xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 57263 [details] Verbose "emerge info" + build error text from make/gcc
For now please just use vlc 0.8.1-r1 (or -r2 if you want a cleaner matroska support, also if still a bit experimental), as that is what is going stable asap, as vlc-0.6.2 depends on the old version of ffmpeg.
vlc-0.8.1-r1 stable
*** Bug 97545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***