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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:23:09PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote:
> Use gmake to build. The BROKEN_RELOCATIONS should fix the assembler errors.

That is only by chance and not really the correct solution.
In particular it will cost you a significant amount of
performance for CABAC-encoded H.264 files.
The problem is that FreeBSD by default comes with a 7 years (!!)
old version of binutils, which is not supported for 64-bit builds.
If you get a newer version from portage and replace /usr/bin/as
with a symlink to the newly installed /usr/local/bin/as it will
compile just fine.