[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Sigh - long list of errors in svn

[Frank Aurich]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:17:04PM -0500, John Brown wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>
>>> This must be the lamest bug report *ever* ..
>>>
>> <lame bug report snipped>
>>>> I hesitate to complain, since I did not pay any money for MPlayer, but:
>>>> Can they check *anything* in? Don't they care whether it even compiles 
>>>> or not?
>>> I hesitate to complain, since I do not wish to embarass you, but:
>>> Can you check out and compile *anything*? Don't you even care whether
>>> you got conflicts on 'svn update'?
>> My previous update did not compile either (it had nothing to do with 
>> conflicts, and was fixed with patches by Erik Lunchpail). Not long before 
>> that, I had to do a fresh checkout, which again had nothing to do with 
>> conflicts (at least there was no >>). I was too frustrated to see why it 
>> would not compile this time.
> 
> Next time, look at the output of 'svn up', it's not something to be
> ignored.  Or check with 'svn stat' if you have any local modifications
> or conflicts.
> 
>> Anyway, thanks to your suggestion, I deleted the offending file and ran 
>> 'svn update', then  make distclean; ./configure --prefix=/mingw 
>> --enable-static --enable-debug=3 --enable-menu --enable-gui
>> --codecsdir=codecs --extra-libs='-ldvdnav libdvdcss/libdvdcss.a'> 
>> bugreport/configure.txt 2>&1'
>>

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>>
>> Again, this has nothing to do with any conflicts. Maybe I need to get a 
>> fresh checkout (again!).
> 
> Are you sure you are at the very latest revision?
> 
>> Fortunately, this problem is easy to fix by manually compiling mplayer.rc. 
>> Unfortunately, I do not understand makefiles well enough to say why I have 
>> to do that.
> 
> But I do.  Try the attached patch and let me know if it solves your
> problem.
> 
> Diego

I just tried with a clean checkout from SVN. The error still occurs. 
Unfortunately, me as well doesn't understand Makefile structure well enough to 
propose a clean fix for this.

Your message didn't include a patch, could you send that again please?


Thanks,


Frank