[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: 0_90 README,1.9,1.10

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 05:52:33AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 10:48:36PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:43:33AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > - Under Linux you have to install libc6 (glibc) development packages or have
> > >   the kernel headers in your include path.
> > 
> > IMO this is still misleading. You could be using uclibc (an
> > increasingly attractive choice since glibc keeps getting more and more
> > bloated and broken), or libc5, or whatever. I would just say something
> > like:
> 
> Does MPlayer run under any of these?  And is libc5 still in use?

The uclibc website reports that mplayer works fine with it as long as
you disable locale. I haven't tried uclibc myself, but I'm hoping to
at some point in the future once the ABI stabilizes so I don't break
everything when I upgrade shared libs. A friend just installed uclibc
on his old P120 and cut the resident size of most common programs in
half (or better!), so I think it's definitely worth keeping an eye on!

And...I'm not sure about whether mplayer works with libc5, but yes,
it's apparently still in use...

> > You need a working development environment that can compile programs.
> > On popular Linux distributions, this means having the glibc
> > development package(s) installed.
> 
> Thanks, applied :-)

Thanks!

Rich