[MPlayer-users] Can't build mplayer from svn since March 2009

[Lyndon Altamirano]

On 5/2/09, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 05/02/2009 06:40 AM, Lyndon Altamirano wrote:
>
>> Is this a known problem? The last known version of mplayer I can
>> build is SVN-r28997. I don't know if there are any later versions
>> that can be built. But almost daily svn updates have resulted in
>> failed builds.
>>
>> I'm using Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 (Lenny). If this is an unusual case,
>> I'll gladly attach a full build log on my next post. For now here's
>> the result of ldd on my latest version r28997 build:
>
> Full build log not necessary. You've already provided your configure
> line; the next thing to provide would be the final GCC command line from
> the 'make' command, and the full text output from that command including
> all errors. If that isn't enough, the next thing we would probably need
> would be the configure.log.
>
> However, before posting any of that: have you tried running 'make
> distclean' and reconfiguring before rebuilding? Every so often that is
> necessary in order to successfully recompile. (I consider this
> indicative of a less-than-ideal build system setup, but constructing a
> perfect one is of course exceedingly difficult.)

"make distclean" appears to be the magic command. Latest svn now builds
successfully. In the past I used "make clean". Thanks!

P.S. What's the difference between "clean" and "distclean" anyway?