Ok so I installed fedora core 8 and tried to play mp3s with the default players it brought but it just did not work because it said that xine was unable to play mp3s for some odd reason and told me to install it again

I downloaded the source code for xine and run configure and it did not say that it was missing any dependencies, but when i do the make command it just gives me an error at the end and i just don't understand what it means. Can anyone tell me what am doing wrong?

These are the errors that I get

make[5]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/xine-lib-1.1.8/src/input/vcd/libcdio'
if /bin/sh ../../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../include -I../../../../src/input/vcd/libcdio -I../../../../include -I../../../../lib -I../../../../lib -D_REENTRANT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DXINE_COMPILE -Wformat=2 -Wno-format-zero-length -Wmissing-format-attribute -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -mtune=pentiumpro -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-loops=4 -falign-jumps=4 -fexpensive-optimizations -fschedule-insns2 -ffast-math -finline-functions -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -MT _cdio_linux.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/_cdio_linux.Tpo" -c -o _cdio_linux.lo _cdio_linux.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/_cdio_linux.Tpo" ".deps/_cdio_linux.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/_cdio_linux.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../include -I../../../../src/input/vcd/libcdio -I../../../../include -I../../../../lib -I../../../../lib -D_REENTRANT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DXINE_COMPILE -Wformat=2 -Wno-format-zero-length -Wmissing-format-attribute -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -mtune=pentiumpro -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-loops=4 -falign-jumps=4 -fexpensive-optimizations -fschedule-insns2 -ffast-math -finline-functions -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wnested-externs -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -MT _cdio_linux.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/_cdio_linux.Tpo -c _cdio_linux.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/_cdio_linux.o
_cdio_linux.c: In function 'get_mcn_linux':
_cdio_linux.c:305: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'strlen' differ in signedness
_cdio_linux.c:305: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of '__strdup' differ in signedness
_cdio_linux.c: In function 'eject_media_linux':
_cdio_linux.c:415: error: 'INT_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
_cdio_linux.c:415: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
_cdio_linux.c:415: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[5]: *** [_cdio_linux.lo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/xine-lib-1.1.8/src/input/vcd/libcdio'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/xine-lib-1.1.8/src/input/vcd/libcdio'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/xine-lib-1.1.8/src/input/vcd'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/xine-lib-1.1.8/src/input'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/xine-lib-1.1.8/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


these are the errors that come at the end of the command and i just don't know what i need to do

Since Fedora is an rpm based distro, compiling from source can cause issues - the rpm database won't be aware that you have installed a source based program.

http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f8-tips.php is a reputable site and should help you get things up and running.

Welcome to LQ

Thanks for your reply and thanks for the tip, I want to learn linux the old way and I want to use source code to try to understand troubleshooting more, but what distro would you recomend me that would not cause compiling problems like this while installing from source code? Thanks for the reply I really appreciate it

gentoo or slackware = you'd need to compile quite often with them

Thanks for the tips