[Bug 770743] registry: Unblacklist plugins if any of their dependencies (incl environment variables) change

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770743

--- Comment #12 from Sebastian Dröge (slomo) <slomo at coaxion.net> ---
(In reply to minfrin from comment #11)
> I reinstalled gstreamer git master from scratch on a brand new RPi3, and the
> same problem occurred. Unfortunately git pull doesn't seem to keep history,
> many of the pulls ended up being large monolithic merge commits, so it was
> not possible to see what changed.

git reflog if you didn't have a git gc in the meantime

> pi at towerofpi9:~$ gst-inspect-1.0 -b
> 0:00:01.556856089 18248   0x707800 ERROR                    omx
> gstomx.c:2681:plugin_init: Failed to load configuration file: Valid key file
> could not be found in search dirs (searched in: /home/pi/.config:/etc/xdg as
> per GST_OMX_CONFIG_DIR environment variable, the xdg user config directory
> (or XDG_CONFIG_HOME) and the system config directory (or XDG_CONFIG_DIRS)
> Blacklisted files:
>   libgstomx.so
> 
> Total count: 1 blacklisted file
> 
> I stumbled on a significant number of mentions of this problem over the
> years, it appears it has existed for quite a while. I wonder if certain
> versions of the autotools trigger this but not others?

The problem is basically that the sysconfig dir by autotools is not any of the
standard XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. We would have to add it as another search patch
inside gst-omx to prevent this. Want to provide a patch?

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