I was running happily with VLC 0.9.7 until I discovered that I had built it without a52 support, which was required to view some file. I promptly changed the appropriate USE flag and re-emerged. However, the emerge now fails with the uninformative die message "econf failed".
This is the section of the build log which seems relevant: checking GL/glu.h usability... no checking GL/glu.h presence... no checking for GL/glu.h... no checking GL/glx.h usability... no checking GL/glx.h presence... no checking for GL/glx.h... no configure: error: Please install GL development package. Alternatively you can also configure with --disable-glx. I simply do not know which package I must install! I would prefer not to disable gl support. To which package is this message referring? -- MFD