On 22.05.2010 21:23, Phil Rhodes wrote: > To build the source of any non-trivial FOSS package is invariably a > nightmare of configuration file editing, downloading source and headers, > copying things into the right directory, poking a few more text files, > fiddling around. And yes I know all the excuses that exist for this: it's my > package manager's fault, it's my distro's fault, some aspect or other of my > system "sucks" but the fact remains that this is very, very difficult to do > for those of us who aren't both software engineers and Linux systems > administrators of significant experience. Hm... I've never edited any MPlayer compilation configuration files. It's fully automatic (and I must say it's best implementation that I've ever seen - there is config.log to look what's missing which isn't standard thing in other projects) and discovers everything by itself so no need to guess why it didn't configured some option which name isn't linked to exact package name that's needed by it (I've seen such project where user don't know completely what's going on except that there is an error). And I've installed headers and additional packages for additional things that I've needed only but MPlayer compilation didn't really need it. All packages that's really required was in my distribution already and I've need only few header packages (distribution maintainers thought that their statistical user will never compile bu hands anything so not even *build-essentials* are installed by default not to mention of *any* devel package for anything - storage space savings) which are descripted at MPlayer homepage. And I didn't need to copy anything to any *right* directory. And the only text file that I've pocked was MPlayer config file after compilation because I want some option to be enabled by default like XV video output, ALSA audio output, fullscreen video or snapshot mode enabled (I'm lazy bum which don't want to type in console to much to frequently) or different presets for different sources (normal files or DVD) for shell command (no GUI) version. Really, thought MPlayer is a huge project but its compilation is one of the easiest that I've seen thus far. -- Krzysztof 'DK75' Duchnowski GetFirefox - http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Konfiguracja UTF-8 dla czytnik?w - http://evil.pl/pip/utf/
