[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix MPlayer to compile on Solaris

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:25:35PM +0200, Milan Jurik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Nico Sabbi píše v so 18. 07. 2009 v 12:14 +0200:
> > Il giorno sab, 18/07/2009 alle 12.08 +0200, Diego Biurrun ha scritto:
> > > > 
> > > > Exactly the same thing happens:
> > > > 
> > > > av at diotima:~/Download/software/src/mplayer$ pfexec gmake install
> > > > install -d /usr/local/bin /usr/local/etc/mplayer /usr/local/lib
> > > > install -s mencoder /usr/local/bin
> > > > find: cycle detected for /lib/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /lib/secure/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /lib/crypto/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /usr/lib/elfedit/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /usr/lib/secure/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /usr/lib/link_audit/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /usr/lib/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /usr/lib/lwp/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE/32/
> > > > find: cycle detected for /usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LO_LTYPE/32/
> > > > install: mencoder was not found anywhere!
> > > > gmake: *** [install-mencoder] Error 2
> > > 
> > > So the '-s' is the problem?  Try leaving that out.
> > 
> > Diego, Sun's install is so much broken to leave me speechless.
> > It's really much better using ginstall when available or a combination
> > of cp and chmod and forget about that abomination of the native
> > "install".
> 
> I agree that /usr/sbin/install is very different from BSD style install
> (in /usr/ucb/install or /usr/bin/ginstall). I never understood what is
> that shell script trying to do...

I'd still like to know if the '-s' is the problem.  Such an issue was
never reported against FFmpeg...

Diego