From 1e4dd198aff2f1071b88aba6ae873745e9c18a81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diego Biurrun Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:35:56 +0000 Subject: Document minimum binutils requirements on Unix-like platforms. based on a patch by Michael Kostylev, michael.kostylev gmail com Originally committed as revision 22800 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- doc/general.texi | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index 84416084e3..d0370df661 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -728,6 +728,19 @@ For information about compiling FFmpeg on OS/2 see @section Unix-like +Some parts of FFmpeg cannot be built with version 2.15 of the GNU +assembler which is still provided by a few AMD64 distributions. To +make sure your compiler really uses the required version of gas +after a binutils upgrade, run: + +@example +$(gcc -print-prog-name=as) --version +@end example + +If not, then you should install a different compiler that has no +hard-coded path to gas. In the worst case pass @code{--disable-asm} +to configure. + @subsection BSD BSD make will not build FFmpeg, you need to install and use GNU Make -- cgit v1.2.3