[MPlayer-cygwin] MinGW compile-problem invd_lcl.c,missingdefi nition of 'Z_NO/BEST_COMPRESSION'

Joey Parrish joey at nicewarrior.org
Wed Dec 17 08:01:29 CET 2003


On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:00PM +0100, Stefan Gürtler wrote:
> So how does the link command under linux find the mplayer.1 that was
> installed to $(MANDIR)/man1/mplayer.1 though it is not provided with
> the actual path to it. ( ln -sf mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mencoder.1 ;)

Because 'ln -sf source /path/to/dest' takes source to be a relative
path, but it's relative to the destination rather than pwd.

> And why does it not function the same way in MinGW?

Try 'man ln'?  Sorry, you're on your own to RTFM.

MfG,
--Joey

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