[MPlayer-users] gentoo linux ebuild of mplayer-0.90_rc3 segfaults...

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:27:24AM +0100, mattias bengtsson wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Gentoo linux (www.gentoo.org) has an ebuild that downloads and installs
> mplayer, and the latest ebuild of rc3 was segfaulting for alot o people,
> as read at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14479. 
> MPlayer segfaulted because the ebuild had the "--enable-shared-pp" switch
> on... 
> Is this a known problem (and thus the flag really shouldnt be set by
> default) or should i send you the ebuild (that contains the build-options)
> together with a full bugreport?

It's not a known problem, but this flag definitely should not be set
by default! Someone should fix the segfault, but gentoo should also
remove that nonsense option from the build scripts.

> Please cc me as im not subscribed (was but didnt want 100 new mails in my
> inbox every day ;)

Please read the archives on the website then!

Rich