[Ffmpeg-devel] 64-bit safety

[Christian Bienia]

Hi Dan,

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 15:21, Dan Maas wrote:
> I am successfully compiling ffmpeg on x86_64 with GCC 3.4.6 and
> binutils 2.16.1.
> 
> What is your distro setup? I once had similar problems because I
> unintentionally mixed 32-bit and 64-bit system headers in /usr/include
> (some glibc headers are architecture-specific due to non-ifdef'ed
> inline asm!). The major Linux distros usually have ways of ensuring
> that the correct system headers are used.

It might indeed be due to my distro (FC4). I just successfully compiled
ffmpeg on another 64 bit Linux machine. I've had problems with other
programs on my machine, too. 

If anybody knows something about problems with FC4 on x86_64 machines
I'd appreciate to hear from it.

- Chris