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gcc 3.2.2
kernel 2.4.28

I have been trying subversion vlc in hopes I would eventually find the fixes for a few things in vlc 0.8.2 that affect me (hotkeys only go forward in files, not backwards, gui playlist doesn't loop), but now compiling the subversion I get a doomsday message, a compiler error. It always takes me weeks to track down and resolve the annoying major and minor difficulties when I migrate to a new release version of my distro. I may not do it this time. That means that by the time 0.8.4 comes out, I'll just have to wave as you pass by; gcc 3.2.2 will be officially too antiquated. Somehow makes me feel old.

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if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -DSYS_LINUX -I../../include `top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config --cflags builtin i420_rgb_mmx` -Wsign-compare -Wall -pipe -MT libi420_rgb_mmx_a-i420_rgb16.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/libi420_rgb_mmx_a-i420_rgb16.Tpo" \
-c -o libi420_rgb_mmx_a-i420_rgb16.o `test -f 'i420_rgb16.c' || echo './'`i420_rgb16.c; \
then mv ".deps/libi420_rgb_mmx_a-i420_rgb16.Tpo" ".deps/libi420_rgb_mmx_a-i420_rgb16.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/libi420_rgb_mmx_a-i420_rgb16.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
i420_rgb16.c: In function `I420_RGB16__i420_rgb_mmx':
i420_rgb16.c:414: Internal compiler error in find_reloads_toplev, at reload.c:4437
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html> for instructions.
make[4]: *** [libi420_rgb_mmx_a-i420_rgb16.o] Error 1
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Are you sure you are using an up to date SVN tree? This gcc bug
should be checked for in the configure phase. If you are, then please
post your whole config.log file somewhere we can check it.

Sorry, I can no longer post my complete config.log because (after backing up the entire partition) I bit the bullet and managed to upgrade to gcc 3.3.6 without breaking everything. (I can't believe it myself). I now get a complete make, though the small errors I mentioned persist. I wish I knew gtk+.

config does NOT report this error at the terminal, though I did not thoroughly examine the config.log, only the make error messages, which as you can see, are clear that it is a compiler error.

However, I can tell you how I get my svn:

svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc-trunk

I was reporting on the source from Sept 22, though the make had been breaking for at least the last week or two -- in real life I use 0.8.2 and I only update svn and build it very occasionally, and I wanted to make sure of the nature of the problem before reporting.

I just got this same error using 3.2.2 on RedHat 9.0 when trying to build 0.8.4-test1. I've posted my config.log here:
http://www.neon.com.tw/download/config.log

Scott