warning in './configure'

[anonymouse]

following is the warning I got, asked me to report to the lists, so here it is! i'm running 64-bit Gentoo, no multilib, i believe xinerama works because i'm pretty sure i use other applications which depend on it (xine?) anyway, following is the relevent section of the './configure' output:

checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h usability... no
checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the vlc lists. ##
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------ ##

[nhdpatrick]

I'm having a similar problem.

I'm running a fresh install of Redhat Linux 9 on an Intel Pentium 2 based Compaq Proliant 1600.

This morning, I ran up2date for the first time and updated the following RPM packages:

[Wed Dec 29 16:27:39 2004] up2date installing packages: ['XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-tools-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-twm-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-2.90.55', 'bash-2.05b-20.1', 'ghostscript-7.05-32.1', 'glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7', 'glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.7', 'glibc-devel-2.3.2-27.9.7', 'iproute-2.4.7-7.90.1', 'libxml2-2.5.4-3.rh9', 'libxml2-devel-2.5.4-3.rh9', 'libxml2-python-2.5.4-3.rh9', 'openssh-3.5p1-11', 'openssh-askpass-3.5p1-11', 'openssh-askpass-gnome-3.5p1-11', 'openssh-clients-3.5p1-11', 'openssh-server-3.5p1-11', 'openssl-0.9.7a-20.2', 'openssl-devel-0.9.7a-20.2', 'pam_smb-1.1.6-9.9', 'samba-2.2.7a-8.9.0', 'samba-client-2.2.7a-8.9.0', 'samba-common-2.2.7a-8.9.0', 'sendmail-8.12.8-9.90', 'sendmail-cf-8.12.8-9.90', 'up2date-3.1.23.2-1', 'up2date-gnome-3.1.23.2-1']

So far I've compiled and installed the following (in the order they appear):
libmad-0.15.1b
a52dec-0.7.4
lame-3.96.1
mpeg2dec-0.4.0
libxml2-2.6.16
ffmpeg-0.4.8 (--enable-pp)
alsa-driver-1.0.6a
alsa-lib-1.0.6
gettext-0.14.1
faad2-2.0
libebml-0.7.2
libmatroska-0.7.4
wxX11-2.5.3
SDL-1.2.8
fribidi-0.10.4
libdvbpsi3-0.1.4

I'm starting configure as follows:

./configure \
--disable-dvdnav \
--disable-dvdread \
--disable-hd1000v \
--disable-pvr \
--disable-libcdio \
--disable-libcddb \
--disable-cdda \
--disable-cddax \
--disable-vcd \
--disable-ogg \
--enable-faad \
--disable-dts \
--disable-vorbis \
--disable-speex \
--disable-x264 \
--disable-svg \
--disable-joystick \
--enable-testsuite \
--with-ffmpeg-tree=$PATH_TO_FFMPEG\

And finnaly, these are the errors the configure script generates:

Package hal was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `hal.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'hal' found
configure: WARNING: HAL library not found
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/Xinerama.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the vlc lists. ##
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------ ##

Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks.

[The DJ]

The warning is not important. Just ignore it and anything similar to it in configure.