LinuxQuestions.org - How to tell a package what gcc version to use?

You could try setting some enironmental variables before compiling (I don't know if MPlayer will honor them however):

Code:

# CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.3

# export CC

If that doesn't work, you could brute force some symlinks to point to the compiler you want. On my system, /usr/bin/gcc is just a symlink to /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 Similar link exists for gccbug. I have removed these symlinks and recreated new ones pointing to older compiler version in the past, and this worked for me.

Here's what the compiler looks like in my /usr/bin. You can see the symlinks illustrated:

Code:

$ cd /usr/bin

$ pwd

/usr/bin

$ ls -l gcc*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 2006-01-15 10:58 gcc -> gcc-4.0

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81072 2005-12-23 19:20 gcc-3.3

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 89136 2005-12-01 17:12 gcc-4.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    10 2006-01-15 10:58 gccbug -> gccbug-4.0

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15963 2005-12-23 19:15 gccbug-3.3

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16239 2005-12-01 17:06 gccbug-4.0

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Below you can see how I required g++ version 3.3 back in January to compile something. My symlink is still pointing to the older compiler. I guess I should fix that now, but it conveniently illustrates what I'm recommending. If I remember correctly on that January compile, I could redirect to the older version of gcc using the CC enviroment variable, but I had to brute-force the g++ redirect using the symlink trick. Just don't forget to undo it after you're done (I should talk - it's obvious I forgot to undo mine!):

Code:

$ ls -l g++*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 2006-01-08 20:47 g++ -> g++-3.3

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84720 2005-12-23 19:20 g++-3.3

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 93008 2005-12-01 17:10 g++-4.0

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