I can't say for 100% certain that it never was a requirement, but i've built & used the past 3 or 4 major releases (not the CVS stuff) going back about 6 months, and never had to go through that much trouble. I know the older releases were alot more rough around the edges in terms of build requirements. The latest stable release is really just a simply ./configure, make, make install and you're done.
--- Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, all I know is I had to type something funky like that. It's > been a > few months. Are you sure there was never a minor version that had a > requirement like that? Not to be insistent, but this wasn't > second-hand. I > built the thing myself, and it was a pain. Either that or I *really* > need > to lay off that crack pipe. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Net Llama [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Compiling avifile > > > --- 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.
