On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 06:36:42 +0000, "Damian G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Well, i started installing one movie player after another, and
> found that mplayer was the one i liked best. ( The ASCII video output
> is just amazing, even though it's almost unusable! ;oP )
>
> well, anyway, while trying to install another one, the configure
> script told me that the gcc version i'm using is "only used on
> red-hat and red-hat based distributions" .. "buggy" .. "not supported".. and
> that "i should downgrade or upgrade, to any different version" .. when i
> tried to install anyway, it MADE ME TYPE "gcc is broken" in order to
> complete the configure.. and even then, it did not finish.
The MPlayer developers are convinced to the point of fanaticism that the number
2.96 is somehow evil. Don't worry about it.
> well, then, i suppose i have to use a better gcc? i downloaded version
> 3.0.1 and after decompressing it, i configured.. and here are my
> questions..
You'd be better off getting Mandrake's packages from an FTP mirror (there's a
list of them at linux-mandrake.com).
> In the README it said something like " instead of make, you should use 'make
> bootstrap' or 'make cross' is you want a cross compiler"
>
> ( what does this mean? what is a cross compiler? )
>
> well, i just tried "make bootstrap". It started compiling... compiling.. and
> then it did a little more compiling... and suddenly stopped on an "ERROR 1"
> leaving me quite puzzled.. it said it didn't find a file to compile..? did i
> download a bad/incomplete file?
>
> i already tried bootstrap and cross. in X and in text mode.. i get the same
> error every time..
No need to worry about this.
> am i doing something wrong? i've already installed several packages and
> it's the first time i got this one...
Ensure that you have Mandrake's gcc3 and egcs packages installed. Then you need
to change compilers before compiling anything.
I'm assuming that you use bash for your shell (if you don't know what bash is,
then you're most likely using it).
To switch to egcs:
$ export CC=egcs CXX=egcs++
To switch to GCC 3 (only in Mandrake 8.1, not 8.0):
$ export CC=gcc-3.0.1 CXX=gcc-3.0.1
> and another question yet! i think this one is the most stupid.
> I've noticed that some commands and binaries should be in my path, but
> they are not. ... uhmmm.. how do i change my path settings??
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/ashell3.html#Path
This is a great site. Take some time to explore it, for it answers many
commonly-asked questions.
> thank you very much in advanced.
>
>
> Damian.
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