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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> >
> In some cases (using some glibc functions) however, you still need the 
> libraries for some functions.
>
> > > A libc5 version should work in BL2 since I already added libc5 for netpbm. 
> > > (But in my experience lynx compiled completely statically refused to work 
> > > online until I gave it glibc6.  Worked fine offline.)

> You see, here's the issue I was talking about. The networking functions in 
> glibc require you to have glibc installed.

Thanks, I could not make sense of this.  The person who helped me compile 
was also puzzled when it would not work in BL3 without upgrading libc.

> > > Mplayer looked like it had 25MB of dependencies.  How big is your static 
> > > version?
> >
> > 5MB uncompressed. Unleashing bzip2 on it squashed it down to 2.2MB.
> > Keep in mind that this has nearly everything. DVD support, and also
> > 85 audio codecs, 192 video codecs, X11, FB, basic VESA video, several
> > audio drivers, blah blah blah.

> >
> If you'd like me to compile Mplayer or pretty well anything I'd gladly have 
> that done (I have access to a 3Ghz, 4Gig of RAM box for building packages).

Many thanks.  Right now I cannot keep up with all the nice programs and 
the kernel that David has compiled for BL, especially if he posts Mplayer, 
which he seems to have compiled extra small - was this using uClibc?

Or maybe you want to compile a really minimal Mplayer that plays 
Realaudio, Windows Media Player, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files but no video or 
anything graphical?  Static so it would work for BL3 or BL2 (or at least 
including all but libc).  I got confused just reading the requirements.
The age hardware supported by BL is not supposed to include DVD-drives or 
really be fast enough to play movies.

Perhaps other BL3 users would like xpdf for libc5 - the precompiled online 
version requires glibc2.2.5.

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