[MPlayer-users] Re:MPlayer compilation error

[Jari Söderholm]

I had upgraded newest binutils 2.13 but there were an old versio as2.11 in  
bin-directory.

using latest 2.13 version of "as" did not help.

On Saturday, 05 October 2002, Jari Söderholm wrote:
[...] 
> Compilation goes quite while until this comes:
> .....
> make -C liba52
> make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/graphics/MPlayer-0.90pre8/liba52'
[...]
> gcc -c  -I/usr/local/include -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -o imdct.o imdct.c
> In file included from imdct.c:397:
> imdct_3dnow.h: In function `fft_asmb_3dnow':
> imdct_3dnow.h:247: can't find a register in class `GENERAL_REGS' while 
> reloading `asm'
> make[1]: *** [imdct.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/graphics/MPlayer-0.90pre8/liba52'
> make: *** [liba52/liba52.a] Error 2
> sh-2.05b#
> 
> 
> I used configure script without any options and I have AMD processor.
[...] 
> sh-2.05b# gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/specs
> Configured with: ../gcc-3.2/configure --prefix=/usr
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.2
> 
> sh-2.05b# ld -v
> GNU ld version 2.13
> 
> sh-2.05b# as --version
> GNU assembler 2.11

I'd say you need to upgrade your binutils. 2.11 is too old for gcc-3.2
IIRC.
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