[MPlayer-users] MPlayer fails to build (on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:42:26AM +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:01:26AM +0100, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> > 
> > On 2017-02-13 09:59 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > > I tried to build current MPlayer, but the build failed with the following
> > > error:
> > > [...]
> > > libavcodec/vaapi_encode_vp8.c:20:27: fatal error: va/va_enc_vp8.h: No such file or directory
> > >  #include <va/va_enc_vp8.h>
> > >                            ^
> > > compilation terminated.
> > > [...]
> > 
> >   Hopefully fixed with SVN r37924
> 
> Thanks, the build now fails with:
> 
> libavutil/cpu.c:20:23: fatal error: stdatomic.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <stdatomic.h>
>                        ^
> compilation terminated.

Hm, I think to remember that a newer compiler (a complete GCC 4.9, not
gcc-4.9-base) works around this issue on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. IIRC there is a
backport of GCC 4.9 available for my distro.

Thanks,
Erik
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