[Mplayer-users] Using older GCC on recent distros

[Steve Stavropoulos]

Go to
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS
and download the gcc 2.96 and gcc 3.0.1 package. Then try to upgrade your
gcc and give:
rpm -Uvh gcc*
you 'll see you 'll need some other packages too. Get them from the same
URL and try the upgrading again. Eventually the Upgrade will be done and
your new compiler will be gcc3 (you 'll also keep the old (the latest
version of it) as gcc).
 To compile mplayer give:
export CC=gcc3
./configure
make
make install
Congratulations, you have installed the best movie player ever written!


On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Aaron Newsome wrote:

> Hi everyone. I have been watching the mplayer project for some time but I
> have yet been able to try it. The information page says that to compile it
> I have to downgrade from my gcc 2.96. I really want to try compiling the
> player, but I think I might screw up my entire Linux installation
> attempting to downgrade my compiler.
>
> Does anyone have any specifics on how they have downgraded gcc on recent
> Mandrake or Redhat, which all seem to use 2.96?
>
> Any words of wisdom that help me get mplayer working on my machine will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> I am realyl anxious to try out mplayer, which seems to outdo all of my
> current players that I have laying around like aviplay, xmovie, xanim,
> mtv, xmmp and aktion. Seems kinda silly to have 10 different players on my
> machine, so you can see why I am anxious to get this mplayer working.
>
> Please reply to my email address, as I am not a list member.
>
> Thanks in advance, Aaron Newsome
>
>
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