Upon a recomendation from Carlos, I am installing Xine and GXine so that I can watch streaming video from MSNBC (even after my disappointment with their site). I started the emerge, and got the following error:
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[3]: *** [libogl_spectrum.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `[...]/work/xmms-1.2.8/Visualization/opengl_spectrum'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xmms-1.2.8-r4/work/xmms-1.2.8/Visualization'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xmms-1.2.8-r4/work/xmms-1.2.8'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
!!! ERROR: media-sound/xmms-1.2.8-r4 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Lin"e 138, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
After a bit of research, I found out that it's related to my NVidia card (go figure), and I found this patch. Baisically, it involves editing the libGL.la file like below:
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This is a problem with the libGL.la generated by the nvidia-installer. Please edit /usr/lib/libGL.la, and replace the line:
# Generated by nvidia-installer: 1.0.5
with
# Generated by nvidia-installer: 1.0.5 (for use by libtool)
libtool greps for "^# Generated by .*libtool" before using .la files.
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