Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] mplayer binary

[Vasil Dimov <vd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:24:30PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> How is the mplayer binary meant to work on non-i386 systems, or
> non-Linux systems?

Distributing this file in SVN:

% file bin/mplayer
bin/mplayer: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

% ldd bin/mplayer
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40020000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40033000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40072000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40080000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0x40147000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40169000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x40172000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0x402a8000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

seems completely brain-damaged to me. Not to mention the license issues.

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Vasil Dimov
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