Re: (no subject)

[Alan Brady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

Jack Bowling wrote:
> 
> In regards to the below cut from an attempted compile of the latest MPlayer drop on my RH 7.1 box, I have a couple of questions:
> 
> 1) How much of this is hyperbole;
> 2) Can I install gcc-3.0 alongside 2.96 and have them happily co-exist?
> 
> ----------
> 
> [MPlayer-0.50pre1]# ./configure
> You can get detailed help on configure with: ./configure --help
> Please wait while ./configure discovers your software and hardware environment!
> Detected operating system: Linux
> Detected host architecture: i386
> Checking version of gcc ... 2.96, bad
> Please downgrade(upgrade) gcc compiler to gcc-2.95.2+ or gcc-3.0+ version!
> 
> Note: gcc 2.96 is RedHat's UNOFFICIAL (it can be found only on RedHat sites, or
> in RedHat-based distributions) and BUGGY gcc release. gcc 2.96 is TOTALLY
> unsupported by us, because it simply SKIPS or badly compiles some MMX codes!
> Important: this is NOT an MPlayer-specific problem, numerous other projects
> (DRI, avifile, etc..) have problems with this shit too. DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!!
> If you don't want to downgrade, use the --disable-gcc-checking option to avoid
> this check, but DO NOT SEND BUGREPORTS OR COMPLAIN, it's *YOUR* fault!
> Get ready for misterious crashes, no-picture bugs, strange noises... REALLY!

I only just compiled it a little earlier myself. It worked fine for me.
But, I commected some things out in the Makefile so that it wouldn't
error out and stop the process. I didn't get a graphical interface and I
had to do a reinstall not long after (due to many other kludges I've
done over the last weeks), so I didn't have much time to investigate
why. But, the video portion worked fine from a commandline.

I dumped the source (as I always do) after the compilation. I'll need to
do another compile of it tomorrow if you don't see the right lines to
remove and decide you want to test it.

As always, YMMV even though the video worked fine for me.

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