Re: multimedia/vlc configuration failure

[Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>]

> | From: Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>
> | Subject: multimedia/vlc configuration failure
> | Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 16:48:39 -0700
> | 
> > The latest version of multimedia/vlc fails the configuration step with
> > the
> 
> > error:
>   ...
> 
> > checking for XLIB_XCB... no
> 
> > configure: error: Package requirements (x11-xcb) were not met:
> What the lines shown if
> pkg_info | grep libX11
> ?
> libX11 should be built with xcb and if libX11 is 1.3.5 or later
> it is built with xcb (pkgsrc wise).
> ---
> Makoto Fujiwara

Thanks for the clue. I think this is the problem:

pkgsrc libX11 does get build and installed as a prerequisite for vlc. I am 
using native X, however, which provides its own libX11. The pkgsrc libX11 
includes xcb support, the native libX11 does not. I suspect that the vlc 
configure step examines the latter.

The question is, how to fix this? The best solution seems to be an upgrade to 
the native libX11.

Thanks,
Sverre