[MPlayer-dev-eng] Intel C++ 8.0 Compiler patch.

[Diego Biurrun]

Guillaume POIRIER writes:
> 
> By the way, I've tried to install gcc-4.0 from debian experimental, but 
> since it needed a lot of expererimental packages to run (that apparently 
> were over-writing sid packages), I tried instead to compile gcc-4.0 from 
> debian experimental sources, but since also it has many dependecies with 
> new libs or languages I don't use (ada and g77) I gave up.
> 
> The main goal of that experiement was just to benchmark MPlayer compiled 
> with different versions of gcc (taking into account compile time, as a 
> great deal of people here do care about that)
> 
> Could anybody give me a good pointer about compiling gcc under debian? I 
> think I heared there were some wrappers to that kind of task, just like 
> "make-kpkg"...

http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/gcc-296.html

Just get the gcc-core tarball, that's C only, so enough for compiling
MPlayer.  A good moment to benchmark gcc would be when 4.0 is finally
released, which does not seem to be that far off.  I have some scripts
from Moritz Bunkus lying around from the last time I did gcc
benchmarks.  Just tell me if you want them.

Diego