[MPlayer-dev-eng] Intel C++ 8.0 Compiler patch.

[Diego Biurrun]

Guillaume Poirier writes:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:27:43 -0300, Daniel Serpell
> <daniel_serpell at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > El Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:03:09AM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER escribio:
> > >
> > > By the way, I've tried to install gcc-4.0 from debian experimental, but
> > > since it needed a lot of expererimental packages to run (that apparently
> > > were over-writing sid packages), I tried instead to compile gcc-4.0 from
> > > debian experimental sources, but since also it has many dependecies with
> > > new libs or languages I don't use (ada and g77) I gave up.
> > 
> > You should install gcc-snapshot package, it installs in
> > /usr/lib/gcc-snapshot, so does not overwrite any system files. You need
> > to use "/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/bin/gcc" to compile.
> 
> Ok, I did that. I tried to compile MPlayer forcing the compiler to
> "/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/bin/gcc" and using "--disable-gcc-check" (or
> something similar) as the configure script won't use gcc-4.0 if I
> don't use that switch.

Try patching configure then, should not be hard..

> But the compilation process fails...
> Should I send here the error messages (or maybe better, try to fix
> them myself if I can), or is gcc-snapshot-4.0 just out of the question
> before it is properly released?

I'd say it's not out of the question.

Diego