On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Igor Nemilentsev <trezorg@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06-10-2009, Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was busy doing a system upgrade which failed halfway (due to the libxcb
> > upgrade thing). This left my mplayer broken since ffmpeg was upgraded i
> > guess. No problem, just emerge mplayer again. Tried it, and the emerge
> got
> > stuck at "Checking for freetype >= 2.0.9 ...". It just hanged there.
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286866
> I had this problem. I then successfully compiled with USE="-openal"
> but about couple days ago I tried with USE="openal" and
> all went smoothly.
> I use media-video/mplayer-9999.
>
> --
> Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do
> it.
>                -- Gandhi
>
>
> Thanks. that solved the problem for me!