I'm running debian and for some reason mplayer will not compile with "--enable-static". It'll compile fine without it though. make spits out this error: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sam/mplayer-export-2009-03-27/libavformat' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sam/mplayer-export-2009-03-27/libavformat' cc -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -I.. -I.. -Wundef -Wdisabled-optimization -Wno-pointer-sign -Wdeclaration-after-statement -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O4 -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I. -Ilibdvdread4 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -c -o output-example.o output-example.c cc -L../libavcodec -L../libavutil -o output-example output-example.o libavformat.a -lavcodec -lavutil cc: libavformat.a: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [output-example] Error 1 rm output-example.o make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sam/mplayer-export-2009-03-27/libavformat' make: *** [libavformat/libavformat.a] Error 2 Am I missing something? During configure all the ffmpeg checks come back as static: Checking for FFmpeg libavutil ... yes (static) Checking for FFmpeg libavcodec ... yes (static) Checking for FFmpeg libavformat ... yes (static) Checking for FFmpeg libpostproc ... yes (static) Checking for FFmpeg libswscale ... yes (static)