[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] print appropriate error when failing to open a file

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:17:47AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> >brightrain:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/mplayer
> >-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      6051280 Dec  9 22:07 
> >/usr/local/bin/mplayer*
> >brightrain:~$ ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer
> >        libmp3lame.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 (0x40017000)
> >        libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x400af000)
> >        libcdda_interface.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libcdda_interface.so.0 
> >        (0x400ed000)
> >        libcdda_paranoia.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libcdda_paranoia.so.0 
> >        (0x40102000)
> >        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4010c000)
> >        libgif.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libgif.so.4 (0x40122000)
> >        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4012a000)
> >        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40136000)
> >        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x401d5000)
> >        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x401e7000)
> >        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401eb000)
> >        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40208000)
> >        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x402e4000)
> >        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x402ed000)
> >        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> Looks like you've left out quite a bit, even though there are a couple
> of libraries in there which aren't even in *my* list.

Which ones, other than ncurses?

> Out of sheer, unrelated bepuzzlement - why in the world does a purely
> video-window/plaintext-output program like MPlayer need to use
> libncurses??

Because ncurses == termcap. There's actually a separate much smaller
termcap library that's standalone but I don't have it, and it probably
uses termcap files instead of terminfo anyway which would be broken
(termcap is outdated and cannot represent all possible capabilities so
I don't even bother having a termcap file).

BTW ncurses would also be linked in if you were using aalib, I expect.

BTW2: I noticed a bug. mplayer should NOT link to mp3lame. Only
mencoder should.

Rich