On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:34, David E. Fox wrote:
> > use GCC 2.96 because it does not support MMX, but in my computer the
> > mplayer works perfectly, eventhough my GCCis 2.96.
>
> They may be referring to the gcc 2.96 built by Red Hat specifically, and
> not a generic build (or mandrake) of 2.96. Mine is 2.96 as well and
> compilation went smoothly. Once I got the win32 codecs installed in the
> right place, it seems to work all right.
>
> It does say not to submit bug reports if you disable the gcc checking, so
> caveat emptor :).
Red Hat's GCC is _not_, as some will tell you, buggy. It is just fussier and
less forgiving with code. Mandrake's GCC is a pruning from the (then
unfinished) GCC 3.0 tree. It was called 2.96 simply because the number had
been vacated by the GCC developers (to avoid confusion with Red Hat's
version). In other words, Mandrake does not use Red Hat's GCC. MPlayer works
flawlessly in Mandrake 8.0 when configured with the --disable-gcc-checking
flag before compilation.
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