[MPlayer-users] Fedora 37: make: *** [Makefile:744: ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Error 2

[stan]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:01:02 -0700
stan <gyvoy at q.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:50:38 +0000 (UTC)
> Antonio Olivares <olivares14031-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
> > Dear mplayer-users,
> > 
> > I have upgraded from Fedora 36 to Fedora 37 and I ran svn update on
> > mplayer directory, ran ./configure, make distclean, reran
> > ./configure, make and run into this error.    
> 
> So, I am running f37, and I have the latest svn version, At revision
> 38405.  It built fine, and is running fine, but that was with a prior
> version of ffmpeg pulled from their source repository, as I have the
> configure setting that gets the latest ffmpeg.  Sometimes the latest
> ffmpeg causes builds to fail, but eventually the issue gets resolved.
> I will see if it still builds when I pull the latest ffmpeg.

I get the same error, and, as Erik pointed out, that is an ffmpeg
error.  The developer probably has that file on his system, but it
isn't in the repository, so fail.  Eventually, it will get there, and
mplayer will build again.