[MPlayer-users] Problem compiling Mplayer from SVN

[Simon Baxter]

> "configure" goes fine, but when I run "make", this is the result:
> /usr/bin/ld: libmpdemux/demux_gif.o: undefined reference to symbol
> 'DGifGetScreenDesc'
> /usr/bin/ld: note: 'DGifGetScreenDesc' is defined in DSO 
> /lib64/libgif.so.4 so
> try adding it to the linker command line
> /lib64/libgif.so.4: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [mencoder] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> /usr/bin/ld: libvo/vo_gif89a.o: undefined reference to symbol 
> 'QuantizeBuffer'
> /usr/bin/ld: note: 'QuantizeBuffer' is defined in DSO /lib64/libgif.so.4 
> so try
> adding it to the linker command line
> /lib64/libgif.so.4: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [mplayer] Error 1

I'm getting the same error on Fedora 13


Not much comfort I'm sure - but at least you're not alone :(