[MPlayer-users] SVN won't build

[Keith Lawson]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Keith Lawson <lawsonk at lawson-tech.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I downloaded the SVN copy last night and it wouldn't build due to a small
>> typo in libavcodec/libx264.c. The Gentoo guys have already supplied a
>> patch here:
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=167513&action=edit
>
> Perhaps the Gentoo guys should actually pay a few seconds of attention
> to development so that they know why the error occurs, rather than
> immediately declaring it a "typo" and trying to patch it downstream
> without telling anyone?  Oh, wait, then they wouldn't be Gentoo.
>

Sorry, I'm not an mplayer developer OR a Gentoo developer. I just used 
that change to get mplayer to build on my system and assumed the Gentoo 
bug report was accurate.

Being new to the mplayer source I assumed this mailing list would be the 
place for help. Considering all the recent discussion about building from 
SVN rather than using the tarball release I don't think this type of 
mistake is unreasonable.

Keith.