Re: gnome-media doesn't compile.

["Joseph E. Sacco, PhD" <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Well... It was a shot-in-the -dark.

Looks like "we" will wait for the 2.13 version of gnome-media.


-Joseph

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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 12:11 -0500, Matt Rose wrote:
> 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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