[gst-devel] various gstreamer-releated questions
Kevin Bowen
kevin at ucsd.edu
Tue Feb 11 00:35:03 CET 2003
> the quickest workaround to this problem is to do
> cd /usr/lib
> rm -f *.la
Hrrrm... that didn't seem to work - same errors. And after getting rid of the
la files, at least one application (konqueror) failed to start up,
complaining about a missing la file. Not that I have any great desire to run
konqueror any more than absolutely necessary ( :) but it worries me
nonetheless. Luckily I backed them up.
So what's the next quickest workaround?
On Monday 10 February 2003 1:45 am, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > > It's in there as well. "make install" installs it fine.
> >
> > In there, meaning in nautilus-media? I actually didn't build
> > nautilus-media from CVS, I grabbed the RPM (versioned 0.2.1) from redhat
> > rawhide - the audio view and properties page work great, but I see no
> > thumbnails (well, I do now, because I got totem's thumnailer working, but
> > I didn't before)...
>
> Ah, well, what you can try to do is run it manually to see if it gives any
> clue about possible errors.
>
> run gst-thumbnail (movie name) (png name) and see if it says "Snapped" or
> not. If it did, it dumped a png and you can check if it works. If it
> didn't, something else is wrong.
>
> I can't give you the gconf location of the thumbnailers now, because I'm
> not at my pc. You could check there if the commands are set up right.
>
> > when I try
> > to build nautilus-media from CVS, make errors out with: "libtool: link:
> > cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.la'". I have pango
> > 1.2.1, installed from RPM... do I need to build it from CVS as well in
> > order make it work?
>
> the quickest workaround to this problem is to do
> cd /usr/lib
> rm -f *.la
>
> .la files are only needed for portability library linking, which you don't
> need on your system since you run a fairly advanced linux version ...
>
> > gst-player from CVS also fails to build for me... make complains about
> > being unable to find /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.la... please don't tell me I
> > need to build all of gnome from CVS to get it working ;)
>
> Same here. And no, you don't need all of gnome CVS :)
>
> Thomas
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