I have submitted bug #86376 to the Debian bug-tracking system, claiming that the xanim plugins no longer work on Alpha. These plugins are the closed-source, NDA'd, binary-distribution portion of xanim, that allows it to use fairly modern video codecs.
Anyway, the XAnim author has responded to this bug: My guess is that the libc used to compile the linux/Alpha DLLs is incompatible with the libc currently used by linux/Alpha platforms. Most likely they need to be recompiled and to do so I'd need to get an up-to-date linux/alpha cross compiler(using the current libc used by most linux/alpha) and that would run on a linux/x86 libc6 system and a volunteer to test the results. It's unfortunate that every rev of libc and glibc are not compatible with each other. I hope they stabilize at some point. Mark I would build such a cross-compiler for him but have no experience in the matter and no way of testing it. I am more than willing to test the results of the recompiled plugins. So, if someone on this list knows how to build such a cross-compiler (or even better, has one already), please send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] describing where it can be obtained. Once this is done, we can all enjoy watching Quicktime and AVI movies on our Alphas. Thanks, -Doug -- Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: DougLarick
