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> Sindi wrote:
>
> I then used make-3.81 to try to compile mplayer-1rc2 and it got much
> further (no ctype_b errors) but stopped after a series of
>
> impossible register constraint in `asm'
> `asm' needs too many reloads


I tried again to compile Mplayer 1rc2 again after installing SW11 binutils
and full glibc2.3.6.  I had to --disable-x11 to get past
"`dpms_disabled' defined but not used" error
(I looked it up online and got references to x11)
and then I got the same "impossible register constraint" error message as 
when compiling with glibc 2.2.5 and gcc 2.95.3 (which I have not 
upgraded).

An online search for this error message, reveals that other people had 
this same error compiling mplayer, and it was the same version. I will try 
rc1.0pre7try2 with glibc 2.3.6 (and/or 2.2.5).  0.93 compiled fine with 
2.2.5 but the plugin needs rc1pre7try2 or later.

I might try the last 1.0rc1.

After installing glibc and binutils, I deleted 56MB of locale files and a 
smaller amount of gconv and some info and doc files.  I deleted all 
libraries ending in .a or .la except glibc_nonshared.a which is needed to 
compile.