On 06-10-2009, Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@gmail.com> wrote:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286866
> 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.
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.
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