mplayer -5 buildd fail on ia64 (!)

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:38:27AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> A Mennucc <debdev at tonelli.sns.it> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:29:39AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> btw, I've sucessfully build  mplayer on mips by hand (not all build
> >> dependencies are available in the sid chroot), with and without
> >> injecting -fPIC -DPIC. 
> >
> > whay did you succed to build?
> > - the upstream SVN with static linking of its internal ffmpeg stuff
> > - our latest packaging
> > - other (fill in)
> 
> what I did on morales:
> 
> $ apt-get source mplayer
> $ cd mplayer-1.0~rc2+svn20090303
> $ confflags="--disable-bitmap-font --disable-ggi --disable-xvid \
>   --disable-xmms --disable-arts --disable-aa --disable-mad --disable-libdv \
>   --disable-libdvdcss-internal --disable-mencoder"
> $ ./configure $confflags && make clean && make

The flags that the official package sets look suspicious:

  --prefix=/usr
  --confdir=/etc/mplayer --datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs

The first makes the other three redundant.

  --enable-debug

This one could be the cause for the build failure you are experiencing.

Diego