[MPlayer-users] Re: Cannot compile Mplayer-cvs on Mac OS-X 10.2

[Christoph Nägeli]

Hi,

I had the same problems recentl. Magnus and me tested some 
modifications in the configuration script so this shouldn't happen 
again.
Depending on the operating system, you have to tell gcc differently you 
like to use altivec.

If you run OS X, you have to set the compiler flag "-faltivec" instead 
of "-maltivec -mabi=altivec".

In the beginning of the configuration script output should be something 
like this ...
...
Detected operating system: Darwin
Detected host architecture: ppc
Checking for gcc version ... 3.3, ok
Checking for CPU type ... 7450 altivec
Checking for GCC & CPU optimization abilities ... 7450
Checking for GCC altivec support ... Darwin-style (-faltivec)
Checking for altivec.h ... no
...

and not ...

Checking for GCC altivec support ... FSF-Style ...
(or something like this)

Also, can you check in the file config.h if the flag "#define 
HAVE_ALTIVEC 1" is set?

Hope this helps.
Christoph