abhay <abhay.ilugd <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm not so sure. I have a second system with the same (USE) flags > > set, and mythtv installs but vlc fails without the GL error: > > > > make[2]: Entering > > directory`/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.1-r1/work/vlc-0.8.1/mozilla' > > usr/bin/xpidl -I/usr/share/idl/mozilla \ > > -I/usr/lib/mozilla/include/idl \ > > -m header -o vlcintf ./vlcintf.idl > > make[2]: /usr/bin/xpidl: Command not found > > make[2]: *** [vlcintf.h] Error 127 > > make[2]: Leaving directory > > var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.1-r1/work/vlc-0.8.1/mozilla' make[1]: *** > > [all-recursive] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.1-r1/work/vlc-0.8.1' > > make: *** [all] Error 2 > Do you use vlc in mozilla to play videos? If you don't, then pass "-mozilla" > use flag for vlc on this system. No. OK, googling I read about some vague relation ship between 'xpidl' and mozilla, but it was not very clear. OK so I tried: USE="-mozilla" emerge vlc On system 2, (the one where mythtv works and vlc fails as shown above, it fails in the same place....? Perhaps my command line attempt is less than sufficiently robust? Ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list