[MPlayer-users] building from source

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 04/24/2009 01:26:34 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:00:10PM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > On 04/23/2009 06:24:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> > > Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > > I build a default-configuration mplayer from the current 
> source.
> > > > Works fine, except that there is no sound. Distribution version
> > > > works fine.
> > > > 
> > > > What am I missing?
> > > 
> > > At a guess, you're probably missing the development headers for
> the
> > > various audio-output libraries which MPlayer can be compiled to
> use.
> > > What does 'mplayer -ao help' on the compiled version say?
> > 
> > Well, there's certainly a difference :-) As I'm running alsa, and
> its 
> > missing from the locally-compiled version, that's probably what the 
> > problem is. So how do I correct it?
> 
> You need to install the alsa-lib-devel package.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:02:34PM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > Can I ask which distro?
> > 
> > Of course :-)
> > # rpm -qi mplayer
> > Version     : 1.0                               Vendor: ATrpms.net
> > Release     : 64_snap20081116.fc10          Build Date: Thu 27 Nov
> 2008 
> 
> There is a newer package available (1.0-68_snap20090419.fc10).
> 
> Try
> 
> yum-builddep mplayer
> 
> so your system installs all of the required build dependencies needed
> for mplayer, then try again building from source. yum-builddep is 
> part
> of yum-utils, if it isn't installed on your system.
> -- 
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

Great. I was not aware of yum-builddep. Thanks.