make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.1-r1/work/vlc-0.8.1/mozilla'
/usr/lib/mozilla/xpidl -I/usr/share/idl/mozilla \
-I/usr/lib/mozilla/include/idl \
-m header -o vlcintf ./vlcintf.idl
./vlcintf.idl:3: can't open included file nsISupports.idl for reading
input callback returned failure
make[2]: *** [vlcintf.h] Error 2
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
I have done some reading about this issue and it seems common that the compile fails. I am very new to Linux Gentoo and would appreciate any help in regards to gettign this going as it is the only thing that seems to fail .
Any ideas what this is from??
EDIT:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/nix-compile.html
I am trying this right now... so well see if this works.
./configure --enable-x11 --enable-xvideo --disable-gtk --enable-sdl --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --enable-mad --enable-libdvbpsi --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-dvdnav --enable-faad --enable-vorbis --enable-ogg --enable-theora --enable-faac --enable-mkv --enable-freetype --enable-fribidi --enable-speex --enable-flac --enable-livedotcom --with-livedotcom-tree=/usr/lib/live --enable-caca --enable-skins --enable-skins2 --enable-alsa --disable-kde --disable-qt --enable-wxwindows --enable-ncurses --enable-release
being what i did... and recieved the following error...
EDIT:
Checking for suffix of executables... configure: error: cannot compute suffix of executables: cannot compile and link.
ARRRG any ideas?