Mplayer 1.0_pre6 fails to build

[charliecompany]

I am trying to emerge mplayer 1.0_pre6 with gcc 3.4.3-r1, kernel 2.6.10 and nptl. It always wants to die at a certain point and it doesn't give me any real error message.

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ar: creating libmpcodecs.a
true libmpcodecs.a
ar r libmpencoders.a ve.o ve_divx4.o ve_lavc.o ve_vfw.o ve_raw.o ve_libdv.o ve_xvid.o ve_xvid4.o ve_qtvideo.o ve_nuv.o ve_x264.o
ar: creating libmpencoders.a
true libmpencoders.a
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mplayer-1.0_pre6/work/MPlayer-1.0pre6a/libmpcodecs'

!!! ERROR: media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 426, Exitcode 2
!!! Failed to build MPlayer!
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

Thats what happens everytime. Does anybody have any ideas on what could be causing the problem and possibly how to fix it?
Thanks in advance

[Dr. Z]

Sounds like this could be failing during the final link of mplayer! Can you try

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# cd /var/tmp/portage/mplayer-1.0_pre6/work/MPlayer-1.0pre6a
# make

[charliecompany]

I went into the directory and tried make. Here is the errors that it gave me.

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demux_gif.c:21:21: gif_lib.h: No such file or directory
demux_gif.c: In function `demux_gif_fill_buffer':
demux_gif.c:43: error: `GifFileType' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:43: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
demux_gif.c:43: error: for each function it appears in.)
demux_gif.c:43: error: `gif' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:43: error: parse error before ')' token
demux_gif.c:45: error: `GifRecordType' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:45: error: parse error before "type"
demux_gif.c:48: error: `ColorMapObject' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:48: error: `effective_map' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:51: error: `type' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:51: error: `IMAGE_DESC_RECORD_TYPE' undeclared (first use in this fu
nction)
demux_gif.c:52: error: `GIF_ERROR' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:56: error: `TERMINATE_RECORD_TYPE' undeclared (first use in this fun
ction)
demux_gif.c:58: error: `SCREEN_DESC_RECORD_TYPE' undeclared (first use in this f
unction)
demux_gif.c:64: error: `EXTENSION_RECORD_TYPE' undeclared (first use in this fun
ction)
demux_gif.c: In function `demux_open_gif':
demux_gif.c:154: error: `GifFileType' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:154: error: `gif' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c: In function `demux_close_gif':
demux_gif.c:211: error: `GifFileType' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:211: error: `gif' undeclared (first use in this function)
demux_gif.c:211: error: parse error before ')' token
demux_gif.c:216: error: `GIF_ERROR' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [demux_gif.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mplayer-1.0_pre6/work/MPlayer-1.0pr
e6a/libmpdemux'
make: *** [libmpdemux/libmpdemux.a] Error 2

Since this time I could see what was killing it, I tried emerging giflib again and then tried with mplayer again. It worked nicely this time.
Thanks for the help. My only remaining question is why didn't any of those errors appear when I did an emerge?

[paranerd]

Worked for me too. Thank you, all!

[bigfoot-]

Same here, re-emerging giflib did the trick. I only wonder why the emerge process itself wasn't verbose enough to tell about the giflib problems...

[Earthwings]

Moved to duplicates in favour of http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-292709.html