Problems compiling mplayer sources from the site.

[clayton rollins]

On Oct. 20, 2004, Martes Wigglesworth <martes.wigglesworth at earthlink.net> 
wrote:
>
[snip]
>
>In reference to the ports system,
>
>I keep getting  make errors when trying to use the new port for
>mplayer-1.0...
>
>I think that it uses make instead of gmake, because I got the same
>errors until I remembered to use gmake.  I have gotten it to
>compile/install from a gmake build, ports still does not work for me.
>

Odd. The port sets USE_GMAKE=yes so that shouldn't happen...

I don't have time to actually investigate further... I'm sure the port
maintainer might like to hear about it, as long as your ports tree
is current. (Maybe some subscript is calling make directly or
something...)

>
>The error was evidently due to a miscellaneous directory having been
>created in the compile directory for mplayer.  I found it and removed
>it, and then proceeded with the install from the tared download from
>mplayer.org.
>
[snip]

Glad you found it.

Best Regards,
Clayton

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