[MPlayer-users] compilation problem: dependency generation never ends

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:07:55PM +0100, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> Lately, when I try to compile the source snapshot, the compilation never
> ends. From the output, I can see that the process is stuck in the
> dependency generation phase: the same .d files are generated over and
> over again ... the whole thing seems to go around in circles.
> 
> What could be the cause for this?

Probably your computer's clock is or was broken, so that a newly
generated file is older than the existing files on disk.
That means that the .d files are already "outdated" by the time
they are created, so they need to be created again.
Try deleting and re-downloading/extracting the source files (or use
something like
find . -exec 'touch {}' \;
to fix the date).