Inox browser fails to build at build_ffmpeg.py in sys.exi

[Goodtobegrateful]

Chromium browser was uninstalled to try to install www-client/inox (a version of Chromium using the inox patch including privacy features such as avoiding to 'phone home' to Google). Its frabjous overlay was installed some while back; my notes aren't very clear from then, but perhaps it went something like the following:

[tranquilcool]

it needs masked ffmpeg-4, and of course is installinig
ffmpeg-4 causes breakages in the system.
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[Hu]

From the output, it appears to be using a bundled ffmpeg. That is obviously bad, but if it is bundled, why would the OP's use of a system ffmpeg other than ffmpeg-4 matter? Could you cite where you found the ffmpeg-4 requirement for the frabjous version of inox?

[Goodtobegrateful]

Thank you both, @tranquilcool and @Hu, for your very helpful observations! It sounds to me that you must be on the right track (as it failed to build at build_ffmpeg.py, etc) yet I didn't realize until your posts that it seems to be related to a clash with ffmpeg-4!

@Hu, you ask: "Could you cite where you found the ffmpeg-4 requirement for the frabjous version of inox?"

I am not sure if this question is directed to me; at any rate, thanks a lot, but I just ran those overlay instructions as a relative newcomer to Gentoo, and I don't know how to use the USE flags, etc. Ironically, I decided since then to reinstall Calculate Linux (this Gentoo distro), and lo and behold, the Firefox Aurora that is bundled with the OS won't play aac files (at least not at the shoutcast.com page), even though I had tried installing ffmpeg, faac and gst-plugins-faac to try to resolve aac playing in Firefox Aurora to no avail. I suspect that I need to reinstall firefox with some flag, further to some internet searches that I did, but that is another story (I may post a new thread to deal with that). NB: When inox was built at the earlier system install, I don't recall any other codec other than ffmpeg having been installed beforehand as a choice of mine (as an early attempt to get aac and perhaps other codecs to play).

I would be happy to get www-client/inox installed even if it doesn't play aac or require ffmpeg, but this can wait: on another front, after notifying the maintainer by email about this build crash shortly after I started this thread, the maintainer kindly replied that he is looking into this, and that the frabjous overlay is migrating to chaoslab; see https://github.com/csmk/frabjous/blob/master/README.md . Your replies have now been flagged up to him by email. Thanks again for your replies! All the best.

[ianmoone]

Hi, I'm the maintainer of said overlay. I came here through the e-mail I received from @Goodtobegrateful.

The initial issue reported by OP, which has:

[Hu]