Re: gnome-media doesn't compile.

[Matt Rose <mattrose folkwolf net>]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:

Nah, didn't work.  There's a lot more stuff that has to be changed to get 
configure to use the new gstreamer.  configure looks for stuff that just 
doesn't exist in gstreamer-0.9.  I think a lot of porting work needs to be 
done to gnome-media to get it to even compile with gstreamer-0.9.


> Try this:
>
> * make clean
> * make extract
> * cd work/main.d/gnome-media-2.12.0
>
>
> * edit configure
> Adjust for gstreamer-0.9 by setting GST_MAJORMINOR to 0.9
>
>                                ...
>        # Check for GStreamer stuff and GSR depds
>        HAVE_GST=no
>        GST_REQ=0.8.2
>        PROGRAMS_GSTRECORD=""
>        GST_MAJORMINOR=0.9            <<=========================
>                               ...
>
> -Joseph
>
> =======================================================================
>
>
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:26 -0500, Matt Rose wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that I'm trying the build from
> > cvs.  I've started to track this down, but I fear it will eventually lead
> > to porting gnome-media to use gstreamer-0.9. rather than 0.8.  I'm praying
> > that the maintainer has already done this in HEAD, and all I have to do is
> > integrate his changes.
> >
> > What ended up being the problem is that the configure script couldn't find
> > the old 0.8 gsteamer-libs package in the pkg-config, so it didn't bother
> > including all the gstreamer stuff.
> >
> > Right now, from cvs things don't compile with gstreamer-0.9.x, which is
> > the only
> > option that I know of.
> >
> > The upstream maintainer has not ported over gnome-media to gstreamer-0.9,
> > so this may take me a while to fix.
> >
> > I'll move it into broken for now, as you did.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Matt,
> > >
> > > The gstreamer-0.9.x branch is not quite ready for prime time.  If you
> > > would like to build a working version of 2.13.x, you will have to
> > > retreat to using the 0.8 branch, which is what the GNOME team has done.
> > >
> > > That being said, things do compile with the 0.9 branch in place.
> > >
> > > Your message would indicate that a dependency was not met:
> > >
> > > [from the GAR Makefile for gnome-media... ignore line wrap]
> > >        GARNAME = gnome-media
> > >        GARVERSION = 2.12.0
> > >        CATEGORIES = desktop
> > >        DISTFILES = $(GARNAME)-$(GARVERSION).tar.bz2
> > >
> > >        LIBDEPS = platform/esound platform/gail platform/libgnomeui
> > >        desktop/gst-plugins-base desktop/nautilus-cd-burner desktop/scrollkeeper
> > >
> > > I am guessing that something is amiss with your install of gstreamer and
> > > gst-plugins-base.
> > >
> > > You should be building with
> > >
> > > 	make paranoid-install > make_paranoid-install.log 2>&1 &
> > >
> > > rather than
> > >
> > > 	make install > make_install.log 2>&1 &
> > >
> > > so the build will stop if something bad happens.
> > >
> > >
> > > -Joseph
> > >
> > > =========================================================================
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 11:16 -0500, Matt Rose wrote:
> > > > I get this error when trying to compile gnome-media
> > > >
> > > > gnome-audio-profiles-test.c:3:21: gst/gst.h: No such file or directory
> > > >
> > > > there is a gst/gst.h file, but it's in
> > > > /opt/gnome/garnome/include/gstreamer-0.9/
> > > >
> > > > If I move the gstreamer-0.9/gst directory to /opt/gnome/garnome/include/
> > > > it compiles, then the link fails, complaining of unresolved symbols.
> > > >
> > > > I'm kind of out of ideas here.
> > > >
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