[mythtv-users] Configure script says "XvMC support no" (err, YES!)

[Matt]

On 4/19/05, john roberts <homepagez at lycos.com> wrote:
> 
> I had this issue.  You will find the configure script looks only in one location for the lib's for various things (such as xvmc, xv, others).
> 
> Adding --enable-xvmc has no effect here since it checks to see if the lib's exist.  And if they do not - then it disables the feature.
> 
> If you are like me - and running Gentoo which now likes to place things in /usr/lib, /usr/bin, etc vs. /usr/X11/lib, etc then it will FAIL to find these lib's.
> 
> So - I created the 3 links in the locations the configure script wanted to find the lib's and all worked well after I faked out the configure script.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> -John
> 

This is also true on the xbox (and I suspect a few other apt
instances).  I had lirc and alsa installed on the xbox, but when I
went to run the configure script, it didn't detect them because they
weren't exactly set the way the config script wanted them to be.

Matt