[MPlayer-users] mplayerxp

[Carsten Menke]

Diego Zuccato wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Gabucino wrote:
> 
>>>installation ignores --prefix configure option !
>>>
>>It shouldn't, I always use --prefix=/usr. What is mis-installed?
>>
> Seems /usr is hardcoded.
> I usually compile non-rpm with --prefix=/usr/local to avoid messing the
> distro, that places its packets in /usr .
> Doing a strace of mplayerxp, I saw it looked for dha in /lib, /usr/lib,
> ... but NOT in /usr/local/lib ...
> 
> Not a real issue, at least for me: I simply copied it in one of the
> scanned directories and it worked well.
> 
Do you have /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ? And ran ldconfig 
afterwards ?
Then it is normally not necessary, to copy over or symlink the libs.

Carsten