[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 562168] New: Good plugins' configury overloads --disable-debug

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  GStreamer | gst-plugins-good | Ver: HEAD CVS
           Summary: Good plugins' configury overloads --disable-debug
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: HEAD CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-good
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: brane at xbc.nu
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


This one falls into the "obvious in retrospect" (headbang) category.

In gst-plugins-good, ./configure --help says:
[... stuff]
  --disable-debug         disable addition of -g debugging info
[... more stuff]
  --disable-debug         disable dependency-less debug plugin

Oops.

'./configure --disable-debug --with-plugins=debug' does what it's told, but
certainly not what you'd expect. This is most frustrating.

This issue appears to have been introduced in 0.10.8 when configure.ac started
using AG_GST_CHECK_PLUGIN for dependency-less plugins.

The only marginally sane change that I can think of would be to e.g., rename
gst-plugins-good/gst/debug to gst-plugins-good/gst/gstdebug, so that the debug
plugin's subdir name doesn't cause a conflict with the standard --disable-debug
argument.


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