Compiling avifile

[Aaron Grewell]

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:beemer9 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:33 AM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
Subject: RE: Compiling avifile


--- Aaron Grewell <AGrewell at bothell.washington.edu> 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.

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