[MPlayer-users] Error compiling MPlayer with latest Matroska CVS

[The Wanderer]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:53:56PM -0500, The
> Wanderer wrote:

<persistent linker errors with Matroska when compiling MPlayer>

>> I am fresh out of ideas. This is obviously a problem in the linking
>> stage, not with MPlayer specifically, but I've tried everything
>> I've been able to think of to deal with it and had no success. Is
>> there anything I can do, short of a wiping my root partition and
>> doing a complete OS reinstall, which might at the least shed light
>> on the situation?
> 
> Is it possible that you're using different (incompatible) gcc
> versions for compiling/linking different parts? For example, maybe
> /usr/bin/gcc is a symlink to one version of gcc while /usr/bin/g++
> links to a different version, or something similar.

That's very possible. I'll look at it; thank you very much for the
suggestion.

> My guess would be that the missing symbol errors come from
> differences in c++ name mangling between different versions of gcc.

That was my guess as well, and the reason why I mentioned the possible
compiler change in the first place, but I couldn't see how the problem
could still exist after all the recompiling I'd done. Still learning....

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