[MPlayer-users] Suse 10.0 glibc crash

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:23:08PM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 04:36:56PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 16:24, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > 
> > > I want to add another comment. The procedure I have suggested, works 
> > > also the other way around: a linux installation old enough to have 
> > > gcc3 wont be able to compile CVS.
> > 
> > Fedora Core 2 with gcc 3.3.3 seems to compile MPlayer just fine.
> > 
> > I had to upgrade from egcs to gcc2.95.3 on a Redhat 6.2 box, though.
> 
> I have redone the compilation of CVS with gcc3 and it works now. But I'm sure
> there has been a time when it was only possible to compile CVS with gcc4.
> (if I remember correctly the compilation failure was in libavcodec).

I don't think so. gcc 4 was not even officially supported _at all_
until very recently.

Rich