[gst-devel] gstreamer head broken

[Benjamin Otte]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Brian Cameron wrote:
> I notice the following problem in gstreamer head...
>
> Running various programs like gst-register or gst-inspect segfault when
> in gst_atomic_int_init() on the line 429 of gstatomic_impl.h that reads
> as follows
>
> So it seems that head is pretty broken.  I'm assuming that all this is
> not Solaris specific.
>
The reason here is that the rewrite of the debugging stuff makes use of
atomic refcounting which needs threading to be initialized, when you use
the fallback implementation only. Since we all use the x86 or ppc specific
optimizations, nobody noticed so far. I'm gonna look at this later today,
thanks for pointing it out.

> I also notice that gst-editor fails to build with the following error
> when building libs/gst/debug-ui/debug-ui.c
>
> "debug-ui.c", line 66: undefined symbol: GST_CAT_MAX_CATEGORY
>
> The GST_CAT_MAX_CATEGORY seems to have been removed.
>
Yeah, I didn't look at gst-editor when doing the debugging rewrite. So it
probably is broken right now.
Somebody with more knowledge in gst-editor than me might want to fix that.

Benjamin