[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer linking takes forever on MinGW

[Georgi Petrov]

16+ hours trying to fix this issue and counting...

The problem is that in the linking phase ld.exe cycles forever. Using
Sysinternals procmon I was able to detect that ld.exe writes the same
bytes over and over again in mplayer.exe at the same offset.

Things I've tried:
* Win 7 compatibility settings for XP SP2 to various GNU toolchain
executables (ld.exe, gcc.exe, collect2.exe and so on)
* Admin permissions
* Older mingw/msys (happens on GCC3 and GCC4, seems unrelated)
* TDM-GCC (still the same problem)
* Adding and/or removing every single ld parameters I could think of
* Running the final linking command line without some libraries only
to find that it is a general problem, not caused by any particular
library.
* Changing directory paths to the shortest possible (some problems in
the past were fixed that way)
* Many other small things I don't remember.

It is very counter productive, because EVERY time it hangs, ld.exe
can't be killed and it generates over 100MB/s trying to write into
mplayer.exe. The process can't be killed Task Manager. Logging in/out
doesn't help either. The only way to kill it is to restart the whole
machine, otherwise it becomes unresponsive (too much HDD activity)
otherwise.

I've done more than 80 restarts in the last 2 days :(

The same problem doesn't occur under XP in VMware. Working under XP
isn't an option, because eventually I'll develop for DxVA/Win7.
Compiling under XP running in VMware is too stupid and is not a
solution for a project that will take half a year.

If somebody has any idea, it will be welcome. So far I've worked 3
days and my productivity is close to zero.