[MPlayer-users] rant

[André Dahlqvist]

Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:

> If someone
> - give us a method of detecting gcc 2.96 release

Since the systems using this compiler (Mandrake and Redhat) are
rpm-based I think there should be some easy way to check this. With
Debian you could parse the output of:

$ dpkg -s gcc-2.95 | grep Version
Version: 1:2.95.4-0.010902

and I'm sure something similar is possible with rpm.

> - give us a complete list of test results with gcc 2.96 releases
> then we can limit this check for really buggy releases.

In linux/Documentation/Changes this is said:

"The Red Hat gcc 2.96 compiler subtree can also be used to build this
tree. You should ensure you use gcc-2.96-74 or later. gcc-2.96-54 will
not build the kernel correctly."

but building the kernel is different from building mplayer, so I can't
say that the equivalent is true for mplayer.
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André Dahlqvist <andre.dahlqvist at telia.com>