Hello Everyone, I was just trying to compile a completely fresh download of Mplayer from SVN: svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer This is my configure line: ./configure --disable-libvpx-lavc --disable-musepack -- prefix=/usr/local/spu/spu-$(xdate)/mplayer I disabled musepack and libvpx-lavx a long time ago, because I have not been able to get Mplayer to compile on my Fedora 13 system with those two items enabled. "configure" goes fine, but when I run "make", this is the result: /usr/bin/ld: libmpdemux/demux_gif.o: undefined reference to symbol 'DGifGetScreenDesc' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'DGifGetScreenDesc' is defined in DSO /lib64/libgif.so.4 so try adding it to the linker command line /lib64/libgif.so.4: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [mencoder] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /usr/bin/ld: libvo/vo_gif89a.o: undefined reference to symbol 'QuantizeBuffer' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'QuantizeBuffer' is defined in DSO /lib64/libgif.so.4 so try adding it to the linker command line /lib64/libgif.so.4: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [mplayer] Error 1 I have had similar issues compiling Emelfm2 and Inkscape on this Fedora 13 system. The successful workaround in both of those cases was to do what the error message said: add the appropriate item to the linker command line. So, since the error with Mplayer refers to "/lib64/libgif.so.4", I added the following to the commands that I use to compile Mplayer: export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lgif" Unfortunately, that did not work for me... Here is the entire script I use to compile Mplayer: > #!/bin/sh > > alias xdate="date '+20%y%m%d'" > > cd /home/steve/CVS/Assorted-CVS-Modules > rm -rf mplayer > svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer > cd mplayer > ./configure --disable-libvpx-lavc --disable-musepack > --prefix=/usr/local/spu/spu-$(xdate)/mplayer export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lgif > -lungif" > make -j5 The script is named "UpdateMplayer" and it is called by this alias in my ~/.bashrc: alias UpdateMplayer='source UpdateMplayer' Again, this system is running Fedora 13, and I was last able to compile Mplayer on this system last night (June 11th.) So, any help you can give me is greatly appreciated. Steven P. Ulrick
