[MPlayer-users] Problems compiling MPlayer on Suse 9.2

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 07:34:40AM +0100, Juggle4Evr wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 16:25 schrieb Juggle4Evr:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've downloaded the MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2 source archive and all the
> > other needed packages and tried to compile MPlayer. configure runs
> > successfully but after make (and a lot of success messages) I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > In file included from /usr/include/linux/list.h:7,
> >                  from ../osdep/kerneltwosix.h:5,
> >                  from vo_fbdev.c:21:
> > /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h: In function `prefetch_range':
> > /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:64: error: `CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT'
> > undeclared (first use in this function)
> > /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:64: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
> > reported only once
> > /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:64: error: for each function it appears in.)
> > make[1]: *** [vo_fbdev.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/juergen/MPlayer-1.0pre5/libvo'
> > make: *** [libvo/libvo.a] Error 2
> >
> >
> > What's wrong here? Is there any file missing?
> 
> After googling around I found a workaround for this. By calling
> 
> ./configure --disable-fbdev
> 
> MPlayer compiles. But I have no idea what else this switch does...

it disables the fbdev video out device. if you don't know what it is
you probably don't need it.

rich