[MPlayer-users] How to set mplayer binary file name when compiling CVS

[Phil Oleynik]

Mustafa Abbasi wrote:

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>>This doesn't answer your initial question, but you can just use
>>symbolic links to be able to easily differentiate between binaries in
>>different dirs:
>>`ln -s /someplace/bin/mplayer /otherplace/bin/mplayer_x`
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>>n0dalus.
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>thats possible but my plan was to add my source_compilatoin directory to
>PATH.
>that way i can use the source compiles programs like installed progrmas and
>have the peace that they won't affect my other packages.
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Then you should probably make ~/bin directory for such experimental files.
IMHO, you should avoid to use program from source tree, sources and
binaries are to be separated to have some order on disk.
Anyway, I advice you to rename and move resulting mplayer binary by
hands, especially if you do not wish to mess other packages, since install
script also installs mencoder, libdha and vidix, if they were built.

Philipp