That's great. As I was trying to build it, I was thinking "no wonder this didn't come with my distro. No vendor wants to QA this." That's part of the reason I haven't installed it on anything recently. Sounds like I need to give it another go.
On Friday 15 March 2002 01:39 pm, you wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
