--- Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The writer of MPlayer was so irritated by the initial bugs in RH's > gcc-2.96 > that he makes everybody using it go through a nagware screen where you > have > to type "gcc 2.96 is broken" or something like that. Assuming you're
Untrue. There was a fairly ugly tirade in the MPlayer documentation about how bad gcc-2.96 is/was, but there never was any requirement to type anything like that. There was, at one time, a required configure option that disabled checking of the gcc versioning. The problem was, that MPlayer (and alot of other stuff, like the Linux kernel for starters) just wouldn't build using the early versions of gcc-2.96.x. The later versions are much more compatible with the official gcc tree, and after some coaxing by RedHat, the MPlayer team relented in their bashing. > patched up it will compile fine once you select the correct configure > option > and submit to the nag. Read the docs very closely, however. This is > not > "configure, make, make install" software. I can confirm that it plays Yes, actually it is. However, there are alot of benefits to reading the dox, and providing a semi-customized configure line. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
