[Gnash-dev] Gstreamer install tip (was: libtool and dependencies pollution)

[strk]

It seems that two glib-2.0 installation are not really able
to live togheter on the same host, so I took another path.

I think it's worth mentioning here so other people willing
to stick to debian stable don't have to suffer the pain I did :)

gstreamer-0.10.4 is known to work fine with glib-2.0 version 2.6.
I haven't tested 0.10.5 but chances are it will work too
(if anybody does please report).

Debian stable comes with glib version 2.6.
Later gstreamer releases will require 2.8 and that's hell.

--strk;

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:29:04PM +0200, strk wrote:
> I've been struggling to build gnash with the latest
> gstreamer release for about the whole week.
> This are my current findings.
> 
> My main problem turned out to be a forced -L/usr/lib
> 
> I did update lots of macros to make sure gnash doesn't
> add -L/usr/lib itself, still, libtool introduces it.
> 
> It seems that -L/usr/lib is found in a *lot* of .la
> files installed system-wide, so that's probably where
> libtool takes it from.
> 
> The final problem is that I have an older libglib-2.0
> installed in /usr/lib and a *new* libglib-2.0 installed
> in a custom dir (the new glib version was required by
> gstreamer-0.10.9).
> 
> So, what happens is that -lglib-2.0 ends up linking
> against the version in /usr/lib instead that in the
> version of my custom install.
> 
> Since stripping -L/usr/lib seems an impossible goal
> (we don't want to skip parsing of .la files from libtool)
> the only chance seems to be making sure that our own
> custom LDFLAGS are *prepended* to the ones automatically
> added by libtool.
> 
> I think there was a discussion about libtool upgrade
> in the past, maybe this is the right time to get it in,
> or does anybody has suggestions on how to force that behaviour ?
> 
> --strk; 
> 
> PS: I know, overriding /usr/lib with the new glib version seems
>     a simpler approach, but I don't think builders should be forced
>     to use a specific layout.
> 
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