On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:46:27PM +0530, Mitesh Saini wrote: > I have PCQ Linux7.1 with gcc2.96. I am not able to compile the mplayer >package, when i compile mplayer, it gives message "downgrade your gcc >version or upgrade it to 3.0+". But when i try to compile it bypassing the >gcc check it >asks me for keyword :-( .
MPlayer developers were so irritated by mplayer does not compile on Red Hat 7.1 which is due to the buggy version gcc supplied with it. This version of gcc they say just skips compilation of mmx and 3D stuff. As a result on some machines mplayer playback is not upto the mark. The users than blame mplayer for that :-) Due to this mplayer developers have put all the messages which they could during ./configure regarding this buggy gcc. However that does not mean that u cannot compile mplayer on Red Hat 7.1 !!! I have compiled it on atleast 4 RH machines. The performance of those machines is also not bad. These machines are Celerone or PIII machines with lots of RAM, which may be the reason there is no remarkable slowdown. >Is mplayer is not free or not, if it is free why it asks for keyword. Yes. mplayer is free. Due to the irritation with the mails fluding on mplayer-user mailing list without going through the mplayer docs has forced mplayer developers to put this keyword stuff. The initial version were not having this keyword stuff. The last mplayer compilation on RH 7.1 also asked me for this key. I just pressed enter it went on. Peace -- Rajesh : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : BASH and non-login shells LOST #099 For non login-in shells (like xterm and rxvt) under BASH, the file which gets read is ".bashrc". Settings in .bash_profile may not be otherwise effective under X. Copy contents of your .bash_profile to .bashrc to make aliases available. ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>######################################## : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
