Problems building mplayer [WAS: Greetings Mplayer Maintainers!]

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hi,

On Thursday, 16 February 2012 at 20:54, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:04:14 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
[...]
> Additionally, the default build uses static libraries, and using shared
> libraries appears broken (at least when I tried it).  I asked the
> mplayer
> mailing list for help.  I was told flat out that using shared libraries
> wasn't supported "here" (the mailing list).  I was able to get it to
> build
> using static libraries, but not in a manner that would pass the sort of
> quality control you would want in a RPM package; even if I did, it
> would
> still be using static libraries.

Fortunately, the current main developer understands the requirements
of the distributions and there is better support for building against
shared FFmpeg.

> This is why I was hoping to leverage the experience of the previous
> package
> maintainer.
> 
> The only options I see are to 1) continue my painful dissection
> efforts, or
> 2) switch to something else and abandon mplayer.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

I'll look at it and get back to you.

Regards,
Dominik

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