[MPlayer-users] Linker error with current git version of ffmpeg in mplayer (The Wanderer)

[George R Goffe]

Wanderer,

Thanks for your post.

I'm quite a novice when it comes to git. Can you give more instructions as to how to get the patch applied please?

Regards,

George...



p.s., I have always subscribed to the quote of George Bernard Shaw.

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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 07:01:16 -0400

From: The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm>

To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu

Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Linker error with current git version of

    ffmpeg in mplayer

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On 2018-10-07 at 23:11, George R Goffe wrote:


> Hi,

> 

> I was testing an up to date (against development source) newly built

> gcc (experimental) version by compiling mplayer and the link step

> failed (see below). I tried the "out of the box" Fedora 30 x86_64

> (rawhide) version of gcc (gcc-8.2.1-3.fc30.x86_64) and the link

> failed as well.

> 

> 

> Has anyone seen this problem? Am I doing something wrong perhaps?

> Could it be mplayer?


Sylvain Bertrand posted a "fix build with recent ffmpeg" patch on

mplayer-dev-eng, just yesterday. This is almost certainly the issue

which that patch is intended to fix.


It can take anywhere from a few hours to several days before someone

with commit access applies the patch, but in the meantime, it shouldn't

be hard to apply it locally yourself. (Although I do recommend applying

it against a copy of the source tree, rather than taking the risk of

forgetting to unapply it before updating after the patch gets applied

upstream.)


-- 

   The Wanderer


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one

persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all

progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw