[MPlayer-cygwin] compile the libs on mingw
Diego Biurrun
diego at biurrun.de
Sun Jan 2 20:31:17 CET 2005
Reimar Döffinger writes:
> > > > > Step 7 MPlayer
> > > > > For my build I'm using a cvs checkout using cygwin, but cvs snapshots,
> > > > > wincvs or release tarballs should work, too.
> > > > >
> > > > > In the cygwin shell
> > > > > cd to your msys home dir
> > > > >
> > > > > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer login
> > > >
> > > > btw. I usually don't use login and it works anyway. Why is this
> > > > necessary?
> > >
> > > No idea, copyed from the download page ;) Diego?
> >
> > You need to do it once, then it gets stored in ~/.cvspass. That's why
> > Reimar can skip this step.
>
> I meant on fresh checkout - you don't need a password for anonymous CVS
> after all.
> And I certainly don't want my password to be stored for cvs write access
> - I'm not the only one with access to my computer after all...
You're mixing up the pserver and ext (usually combined with ssh)
repository access methods. What gets stored in ~/.cvspass is the pw
for pserver, which for MPlayer is anonymous CVS only, besides it is
stored crypted.
Diego
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