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Settle for GCC, not gcc. 10l for telling Andras otherwise.

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<H2><A NAME="gcc">GCC 2.96 series</A></H2>

<P><B>The background:</B> The GCC <B>2.95</B> series is an official GNU release
  and version 2.95.3 of GCC is the most bug-free in that series.
  We have never noticed compilation problems that we could trace to gcc-2.95.3. 
  Starting with Red Hat Linux 7.0, <B>Red Hat</B> included a heavily
  patched CVS version of GCC in their distribution and named it <B>2.96</B>. Red
  Hat included this version in the distribution because GCC 3.0 was not finished
  at the time, and they needed a compiler that worked well on all of their
  supported platforms, including IA64 and s390. The Linux distributor

<P>If you have problems with GCC 2.96, you can get 2.96-85 packages from the
  Red Hat <A HREF="ftp://updates.redhat.com">ftp server</A>, or just go for the
  3.0.4 packages offered for version 7.2 and later. You can also get
  <A HREF="ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/gcc3/3.1-1/">gcc-3.1 packages</A>
  (unofficial, but working fine) and you can
  install them along the gcc-2.96 you already have. MPlayer will detect it and
  use 3.1 instead of 2.96. If you do not want to or cannot use the binary
  packages, here is how you can compile GCC 3.1 from source:</P>

<UL>
  <LI>Go to the <A HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html">GCC mirrors page</A>

    <CODE>tar -xvzf gcc-core-3.1.tar.gz</CODE></LI>
  <LI>GCC is not built inside the source directory itself like most programs,
    but needs a build directory outside the source directory.  Thus you need to
    create this directory via<BR>
    <CODE>mkdir gcc-build</CODE></LI>
  <LI>Then you can proceed to configure gcc in the build directory, but you need
    the configure from the source directory:<BR>
    <CODE>cd gcc-build<BR>
    ../gcc-3.1/configure</CODE></LI>
  <LI>Compile GCC by issuing this command in the build directory:<BR>
    <CODE>make bootstrap</CODE></LI>

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<H2><A NAME="gcc">GCC 2.96 series</A></H2>

<P><B>The background:</B> The GCC <B>2.95</B> series is an official GNU release
  and version 2.95.3 of GCC is the most bug-free in that series.
  We have never noticed compilation problems that we could trace to GCC 2.95.3. 
  Starting with Red Hat Linux 7.0, <B>Red Hat</B> included a heavily
  patched CVS version of GCC in their distribution and named it <B>2.96</B>. Red
  Hat included this version in the distribution because GCC 3.0 was not finished
  at the time, and they needed a compiler that worked well on all of their
  supported platforms, including IA64 and s390. The Linux distributor

<P>If you have problems with GCC 2.96, you can get 2.96-85 packages from the
  Red Hat <A HREF="ftp://updates.redhat.com">ftp server</A>, or just go for the
  3.0.4 packages offered for version 7.2 and later. You can also get
  <A HREF="ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/gcc3/3.1-1/">gcc-3.1 packages</A>
  (unofficial, but working fine) and you can
  install them along the GCC 2.96 you already have. MPlayer will detect it and
  use 3.1 instead of 2.96. If you do not want to or cannot use the binary
  packages, here is how you can compile GCC 3.1 from source:</P>

<UL>
  <LI>Go to the <A HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html">GCC mirrors page</A>

    <CODE>tar -xvzf gcc-core-3.1.tar.gz</CODE></LI>
  <LI>GCC is not built inside the source directory itself like most programs,
    but needs a build directory outside the source directory.  Thus you need to
    create this directory via<BR>
    <CODE>mkdir gcc-build</CODE></LI>
  <LI>Then you can proceed to configure GCC in the build directory, but you need
    the configure from the source directory:<BR>
    <CODE>cd gcc-build<BR>
    ../gcc-3.1/configure</CODE></LI>
  <LI>Compile GCC by issuing this command in the build directory:<BR>
    <CODE>make bootstrap</CODE></LI>