[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer failing to compile on Mac OS X 10.4.8

[Ergzay]

On 2007/03/11, at 5:14, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> Hello,
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:31:11PM -0500, Ergzay wrote:
>> On 2007/03/08, at 15:29, Alexander Strange wrote:
>>> On Mar 8, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>>>> Sorry, missed the mail. That unfortunately is a completely different
>>>> problem. Does the apple compiler use -fPIC by default??
>>>> You could try the commandline that MPlayer use and just replace the 
>>>> -c
>>>> by -S.
>>>
>>> Yeah, it does PIC by default. If you aren't making a shared library
>>> you need '-mdynamic-no-pic' as a gcc option to avoid this.
>>> (One less register due to PIC wasn't as bad a problem back on PPC, I
>>> guess)
>>
>> So this is somewhat vauge. Should I be adding lines to my gcc line 
>> that
>> I type? If not, what do I need to do to make mplayer compile?
>
> Probably won't have the same result. Would be better to modify the
> command make uses so that it produces an assembler file.

Again I don't understand. I am only a beginning coder myself and have 
very little familiarity with makefiles and gcc options. Could someone 
help me here?

Ergzay