On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, war wrote:

>Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 12:06:15 -0500
>From: war <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>     Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Subject: Re: [Avifile]avifile problem reported in Red Hat Linux 7.2
>
>It sure is funny, many people reported this problem as well.
>RedHat-7.2 [default] with RealPlayer RPM, realplayer crashes and burns
>upon startup.
>Try it sometime.
>
>Clean install of 7.2, and try the real player rpm, it does not work w/out
>the glibc eratta update.

Real Player works fine.  I'm curious what real player has to do 
with your avifile problem.  If it does crash on your system 
however, I would not at all be surprised.  Considering what 
you've told me about your system:

1) You hate RPM, and using RPM packages, so you install 
   everything from source

2) IIRC you use "relink", and install stuff in nonstandard 
   locations because that is your prefered way.

3) You've replaced core system components with these home brewed 
   versions, such as SDL, and various other libraries.

4) Also IIRC, you do not use the system supplied C compiler.

Whenever you encounter any problem using your own rolled 
compiler, own libraries, kernel, directory structure, and any 
error message is ever displayed on the screen for any reason, be 
it during compile, link, or runtime - it is a Red Hat Bug(tm) in 
the buggy unstable unnofficial unsupported Red Hat C compiler, or 
in the Red Hat buggy glibc, or pull something random out of a hat 
and blame it on that.

You provide zero facts, and zero useful technical information to 
back up your bogus claims, of which you are the sole person 
experiencing.

Before one can claim a bug exists in something, one should learn 
how to use strace, gdb, and other development tools to debug the 
problem, rather than jumping to random conclusions based on 
little to no factual evidence.  If you're going to compile all 
your own software, you're going to have to no how to debug it 
also.  I'll bet good money, the problem lay under /opt and/or 
/usr/local.

Please be rational, and find the true sources of your problems by 
debugging them rather than spinning a gun around in a circle and 
firing aimlessly.  It is not very becoming of you.




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