[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 555978] [ladspa] no elements exposed/found on Cygwin

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------- Comment #17 from Cygwin Ports maintainer  2009-03-01 07:17 UTC -------
Created an attachment (id=129771)
 --> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=129771&action=view)
core configure.ac patch

Thanks for the nudge.  I took a fresh look at this and I finally figured this
out.

Since the loading of LADSPA plugins is left to the client code, and the base
LADSPA plugins are not built with libtool, the Cygwin Ports ladspa-* packages
use the .so extension as on other platforms.

The problem here was that GStreamer was ignoring the LADSPA plugins because
they didn't match the .dll extension usually used on Cygwin (as defined by
G_MODULE_SUFFIX).

I'm attaching a patch for core's configure.ac which defines
GST_EXTRA_MODULE_SUFFIX to fix this issue, and fixes some other
platform-specific-settings issues (Cygwin *is* a POSIXy platform, and while we
have fork(), it's a bit safer to avoid it if the option exists).


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