[MPlayer-users] Re: make error

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:46:34PM +0000, adland123 wrote:
> > Having make error on FC3 with mplayer 1.0pre7.
> > 
> > make -C libao2
> 
> why did you do this command and not:
> in root directory of the source type
> make distclean
> ./configure
> make
> 
> > -o ao_pcm.o ao_pcm.c
> > ao_pcm.c:56: error: initializer element is not constant
> > ao_pcm.c:56: error: (near initialization for `wavhdr.riff')
> > ao_pcm.c:59: error: initializer element is not constant
> > ao_pcm.c:59: error: (near initialization for `wavhdr.wave')
> > ao_pcm.c:60: error: initializer element is not constant
> > ao_pcm.c:60: error: (near initialization for `wavhdr.fmt')
> 
> seems to be complaining about this structure definition in ao_pcm.c.
> 
> struct WaveHeader
> {
>         uint32_t riff;
>         uint32_t file_length;
>         uint32_t wave;
>         uint32_t fmt;
>          .......
>          .......
> };

no, it's complaining about the initialization at line 56 of an
instance of this structure. it's happening because someone stupidly
broke the byte swapping macros... i'll fix...

rich