[MPlayer-users] what are those extras ???

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:56:42AM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Jose Borreguero wrote:
> 
> JB>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> JB>
> JB>I run ./configure and among other output, I have:
> JB>
> JB>============ Checking for extra headers ============
> JB>Result is: none
> JB>##########################################
> JB>
> JB>============ Checking for extra libs ============
> JB>Result is: none
> JB>##########################################
> JB>
> JB>Do I need to download & install those ? What are they for ?
> 
> No. They are needed if you have something installed in non-standart (or
> just unknown to configure) locations. If you have these kind of
> questions, you definitely don't need this.
> They aren't usually needed in normal linux distributions anyway, mostly
> in LFS or when you have a lot of "make install"'ed programs and such.

They should not be needed there either unless your system is broken
(e.g. installing stuff in /opt).

Rich