[Bug 770623] netclock-replay tool breaks cross compile

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770623

--- Comment #23 from Olivier Blin <gnome at blino.org> ---
(In reply to Tim-Philipp Müller from comment #22)
> Sorry, but I think we really don't want to start hacking around libtool
> issues, even less ones that are distro-specific :)
> 
> I think --disable-examples/benchmarks is a good-enough work-around for
> almost everyone, so in this case I think we prefer the 'do nothing' option.

Yes, it is likely good-enough for many users.
I understand your position, a libtool hack would be a maintenance nightmare.

> The meson config option thing is on our radar, but we'd like to do it
> properly/nicely which will take a bit more time unfortunately. I understand
> if it's not an option yet for you until then of course, although I suspect
> these kind of things could also be hacked around temporarily either by doing
> patches to comment out the subdir() directives or just removing certain
> files again after the install step ;)

Removing files post-install would still build more stuff, but that may be
balanced by the improved build speed. Thanks for the hints!

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