[MPlayer-users] Configure Problem

[Mike Giancaspro]

Hi,

I was using MPlayer just fine when running under RHEL 4, but I had to go 
and upgrade.  I totally understand now why my wife hates to hear those 
two words spoken in the same sentence, computer and upgrade. :-)      I 
now have Fedora 9, kernel  2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 and I can't get MPlayer 
to configure. 

The configure.log file shows the following:
============ Checking for zlib ============

#include <zlib.h>
int main(void) { (void) inflate(0, Z_NO_FLUSH); return 0; }

cc -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O4 -march=native 
-mtune=native -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer         -o 
/tmp/mplayer-conf-6708-2842 /tmp/mplayer-conf-8907-2842.c -lz
/tmp/mplayer-conf-8907-2842.c:1:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
/tmp/mplayer-conf-8907-2842.c: In function 'main':
/tmp/mplayer-conf-8907-2842.c:2: warning: implicit declaration of 
function 'inflate'
/tmp/mplayer-conf-8907-2842.c:2: error: 'Z_NO_FLUSH' undeclared (first 
use in this function)
/tmp/mplayer-conf-8907-2842.c:2: error: (Each undeclared identifier is 
reported only once
/tmp/mplayer-conf-8907-2842.c:2: error: for each function it appears in.)


Result is: no
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it also throws the following message after running confugure:

Error: The GUI requires libavcodec with PNG support (needs zlib).

Except that zlib is installed.  The version from rpm -q is:
zlib-1.2.3-18.fc9.i386
arm-gp2x-linux-zlib-1.2.3-6.fc8.noarch
jzlib-1.0.7-5jpp.1.i386

The first one was the only one installed at first, I added the other two 
thinking it might help, but it didn't.  I also can't find any reference 
to libavcodec except with FFMpeg, which I also installed.  Its version 
is:  gallery2-ffmpeg-2.2.5-1.fc9.noarch

I appreciate any ideas on this, as the usual Google, Yahoo searches have 
turned up no further info.  It's hard to believe that no one else has 
run into this, but who knows.

Thanks

Mike

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