[MPlayer-users] Can't build mplayer from svn since March 2009

[The Wanderer]

On 05/02/2009 08:57 PM, Lyndon Altamirano wrote:

> On 5/2/09, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/02/2009 06:40 AM, Lyndon Altamirano wrote:
>> 
>>> Is this a known problem? The last known version of mplayer I can
>>> build is SVN-r28997. I don't know if there are any later versions
>>> that can be built. But almost daily svn updates have resulted in
>>> failed builds.
>>> 
>>> I'm using Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 (Lenny). If this is an unusual
>>> case, I'll gladly attach a full build log on my next post. For
>>> now here's the result of ldd on my latest version r28997 build:
>> 
>> Full build log not necessary. You've already provided your
>> configure line; the next thing to provide would be the final GCC
>> command line from the 'make' command, and the full text output from
>> that command including all errors. If that isn't enough, the next
>> thing we would probably need would be the configure.log.
>> 
>> However, before posting any of that: have you tried running 'make
>> distclean' and reconfiguring before rebuilding? Every so often that
>> is necessary in order to successfully recompile. (I consider this 
>> indicative of a less-than-ideal build system setup, but
>> constructing a perfect one is of course exceedingly difficult.)
> 
> "make distclean" appears to be the magic command. Latest svn now
> builds successfully. In the past I used "make clean". Thanks!
> 
> P.S. What's the difference between "clean" and "distclean" anyway?

'make clean' removes the mplayer and mencoder binaries and the various
intermediate-stage object files.

'make distclean' removes everything which can be re-generated -
config.h, the .d files, et cetera - giving you, in theory, a source tree
identical to what you'd get if you checked out a fresh copy from SVN.

Note also that much of the time 'make depend' or 'make dep' will let you
rebuild successfully without having to go quite as far as 'make
distclean'; however, the compilation time saved is not really very much,
and 'make dep' fails just often enough that 'make distclean' is the more
practical solution if you aren't having failures on a constant basis.

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