Just a thought - are you sure your box is i686? Mine is a K6/2-3D and it
doesn't benefit from i686 compiling, although (I think) it survives. Some
lesser processors will actually crash out on them. Some distros never went to
i686 rpms for this reason; Mandrake only went up to i586, figuring that the
improvement gained by going to i686 would only benefit the highest level
processors, and I think I've seen some i386 rpms still (Red Hat?).
If you're having build problems, you can always try rpm --build on the
tarball (man rpm for the details) and then install the rpm. This allows you
to specify exactly which processor you want it to be for.
BTW, I got a lesson on SuSe some years back. I got their 'snapshot' and was
able to build virtually nothing becauise the libraries were
crap/missing/wrong. The full development version has all the libraries right,
but only programmers would install them all. At least one source package
specifically said in the INSTALL that if you had SuSe, get the (expletive
deleted) libraries off and download a fresh set from somebody else. That's
why I went away from SuSe - ithat's the sort of hassle you don't need.
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Success covers a multitude of blunders - G.B. Shaw.
On Saturday 08 December 2001 15:36, you wrote:
> I would start xine from an xterm window and look at the error messages.
> I built xine from the tar ball and it worked, finally, quite nicely.
> Joel
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:20:41PM -0800, stayler wrote:
> > Has anyone tried to build Xine from the src rpms? libdvdread wants
> > libtool 1.3.5, which I downloaded and built from a tarball. This is on
> > a COL 3.1 box btw. The i686 rpms are for SuSE and didn't work on COL.
> > Xine starts but exits abruptly.
> >
> > Any clues that might point me the right way?
> >
> > stayler
>
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