[MPlayer-users] trouble compiling mplayer

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User Rajarshi Guha <rxg218 at psu.edu> wrote:
>Hi, I\'ve downloaed the latest tarball for mplayer (MPlayer-1.0pre5) and
>am having trouble compiling it.
>
>I ran configure as
>
>./configure --prefix=/usr/local 
>
>and then ran make. The compile stops with the error:
>
>In file included from native/decode144.c:3:
>native/tables144.h:751:8: invalid suffix "yfcaf" on integer constant
>In file included from native/decode144.c:3:
>native/tables144.h:751: error: initializer element is not constant
>native/tables144.h:751: error: (near initialization for
>`wavtable1[1849]\')
>native/tables144.h:767: warning: overflow in implicit constant
>conversion
>native/tables144.h:768: warning: overflow in implicit constant
>conversion
>make[1]: *** [native/decode144.o] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory
>`/usr/local/src/dvd/MPlayer-1.0pre5/libmpcodecs\'
>make: *** [libmpcodecs/libmpcodecs.a] Error 2
>
>I\'m not sure how to procede - is this a bug in the code?
>Any pointers would be appreciated
>
>My system is:
>
>AMD Athlon 1GHz
>1GB RAM
>Fedora Core 2
>gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)
>kernel:  2.6.5-1.358

Are you sure your source code isn't broken? I have two machines
with similar (differences: clock, kernel) configuration and
MPlayer-1.0pre5 is "compilable". Try: make distclean;./configure ...;make

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