[MPlayer-users] problems compiling mplayer

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 25 February 2006 at 20:16, Graeme Jackson wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am attempting to build mplayer from source but I am unable to compile 
> successfully. I am running Redhat 7.1 and I downloaded/extracted the 
                             ^^^^^^^^^^

This RH version contains a bad GCC version. Did you use --disable-gcc-checking?

> MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz.
> 
> Firstly I ran 'configure' which completed successfully with no errors. 
> However, when I then run 'make' the output ends with the following errors:
> 
> gcc -I../libvo -I../../libvo -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-PIC -O4 -march=i686 
> -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT 
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. 
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFE_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE  -c -o 
> i386/vp3dsp_sse2.o i386/vp3dsp_sse2.c
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:491: Error: no such instruction: `punpcklqdq %xmm4,%xmm0'
> {standard input}:497: Error: no such instruction: `punpcklqdq %xmm0,%xmm1'
> {standard input}:500: Error: no such instruction: `punpcklqdq %xmm5,%xmm4'
> {standard input}:507: Error: no such instruction: `punpcklqdq %xmm6,%xmm5'
> make[1]: *** [i386/vp3dsp_sse2.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2/libavcodec'
> make: *** [libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Error 2
> 
> Does anybody know what this means and how I can solve this problem ?

Which GCC version are you using? Your problem report is very incomplete.

R.

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