[MPlayer-users] Inconsistent behavior with PNG support during configure/make

[The Wanderer]

Joseph Schmoley wrote:

> Thanks very much for quick reply.  Ok, I apologize, my understanding
> of the mplayer configure "--enable" option was incorrect.  I thought
> configure would check dependencies for an explicite --enable flag and
> break/stop if it didn't find them, which is the case with all other
> configure scripts I've used.

Most of those other configure scripts were probably autotools-based.
MPlayer's configure script has the semantics it does very much
intentionally, and warns about the fact at the end of its --help output.

> But no matter, if I remove --enable-png it compiles fine, without PNG
> support of course.
> 
> When I check my environment for libpng, yum reports that it's already
> installed:
> 
> # yum install libpng

This package probably just contains the library files. You also need the
header files, which are usually in a separate package.

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anywhere else either).

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