Compiling avifile

[Net Llama]

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 <AGrewell at bothell.washington.edu> 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: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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