[MPlayer-cygwin] call for cygwin help

Brian Dessent brian at dessent.net
Thu Nov 13 01:02:37 CET 2003


Joey Parrish wrote:

> Yes, but it is no longer available to download in many places.  I just
> found the package yesterday.  It took me a whole week.  Maybe I'm just a
> putz, though.  What helped, though, was knowing the entire version name.
> Searching for 2.95.3-10 finally found me a mirror with a copy.
> 
> On that note, it turns out not to be a compiler bug giving me problems.
> Additionally, gcc 2.95 doesn't even compile mplayer under cygwin.  I
> remember now what it was like when I started trying to compile cygwin
> mplayer way back when.  Gcc 2.95 under cygwin segfaults under conditions
> I can't quite pinpoint.  It's usually fixed by changing the order of the
> #include directives.  Grrrr.  So I'm back to 3.3.1.

That is in fact why it was removed and is now unsupported.  The last
packaged version has serious issues and is known to be broken.  Its
maintainer (Chris Faylor) does not want to support it anymore as no
Cygwin packages require it, thus its removal and unsupported-ness.

Brian



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