[MPlayer-users] Trouble compiling, ldt_keeper?

[Todd ...]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:08:20PM +0000, Todd ... wrote:
 >
 > Greetings all. Having trouble compiling mplayer. I do run Gentoo, but I
 > downloaded the mplayer source from the mplayer web site and manually 
tried
 > to compile it, which resulted in the same error. Hope someone here has an
 > idea of whats going on.

>Strange, should work (TM) ;)
>Now, more seriously. You are running Linux, are you? What kernel
>version? Reading through the file I guessed that modify_ldt_ldt_s
>(type that fails) is declared in kernel headers, more specific in
>asm/ldt.h. And that if you have kernel newer than 2.5.xx(*) renamed this
>to user_desc.
>(*) Comment mentions 2.5.xx+. But check just below uses 2.5.47. Maybe
>that can help.
>If that doesn't help then try forcing the structure definition present in 
>file
>(ex. copy it to the beginning) and see if that helps. And post the
>results here, as this is just narrowing the problem.
>And btw does the CVS version still have this bug? Maybe we are hunting
>what has already been hunted.
>Torinthiel

Thanks for replying.

I am using Linux, kernel 2.6.6. Gentoo tends to be a very bleeding edge 
distro. But I have built mplayer before, on this very machine. the reason I 
did this was because I noticed I did not compile in DVD support so I am 
trying to re-compile.

anyway. I looked in the file you mentioned (asm/ldt.h) and found the line 
you said was having the issue (modify_ldt_ldt_s) moved that to the top of 
the file but ended up with the same error.

Thanks
-pr0v