On 14:49 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an > explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually > means or what it means in this particular case (why this specific USE > flag is masked under this specific profile), in such a way that one > would know if it was something one had to learn to live with > (definitively unresolveable), or was in some way "unmaskable". That's > the original issue-- is there a way to compile mPlayer using this USE > flag under this profile, or is there not? Normally, *.mask files seem to > contain some explanation of the reason for the mask (even if only > minimal), which is why I was looking through them, but here that does > not seem to be the case. Does that mean that the OP is SOL? >
My guess is that he's SOL. If I were in that situation I'd just edit /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask and see if win32codecs will work on that profile, and if they did they I'd try and figure out how to do it properly. I think there's a good chance that win32codecs just won't work with uclibc though. You might be able to find the reason that it's masked on bugzilla, in the gentoo-embedded archives or on google. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
