[MPlayer-users] mplayer from FreeBSD ports fails to build/compile

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Tom Evans <tevans.uk <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> ./configure --extra-libs=-L/usr/local/lib \
>   --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include --as=/usr/local/bin/as
> dies with 'Error: Your binutils version is too old and not supported'
> $ > # /usr/local/bin/as --version|head -n 1
> GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.21.1

I believe Reimar explained that you have to replace /usr/bin/as by a symlink if
you do not want to use the system compiler.

Carl Eugen