[MPlayer-users] fixes for compiling CVS on an Alpha (lx164 21164)

[Gregory P. Smith]

In order to get the current CVS version of mplayer to compile on my
Alpha I had to do the following three things:

1)  libmpeg2/idct_alpha.c will fail to compile on 21164 systems with
    gcc complaining that various instructions are not supported on
    the ev56 architecture.  Execute the failing gcc command by hand
    and change -mcpu=ev56 to -mcpu=ev6; it seems to work anyways on
    my system (does playback not use that code or is the gcc asm error
    wrong?  [both gcc 3.2.2 and 2.95.4 give the error]).

2)  After running configure, edit config.mak and add -fPIC to the
    OPTFLAGS setting.  Otherwise you'll get gp-register errors
    during the final link.  Objects destined for a shared library
    should *always* be compiled with -fPIC.  (it doesn't matter on
    some platforms; the Alpha is one where it does)

Both of the above could be fixed with configure.in or Makefile edits
i'm sure; i didn't investigate how to do that.

3)  The following patch fixes the bitstream.h compile problem:

diff -u -r1.7 bitstream.h
--- liba52/bitstream.h  20 Jun 2003 13:10:42 -0000      1.7
+++ liba52/bitstream.h  4 Jul 2003 06:53:04 -0000
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
  * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
  * 02111-1307  USA
  */

-#if defined(__sparc__) || defined(hpux)
+#if defined(__sparc__) || defined(__alpha__) || defined(hpux)
 /*
  * the alt bitstream reader performs unaligned memory accesses; that
  * doesn't work
  * on sparc/hpux.  For now, disable ALT_BITSTREAM_READER.