[gst-devel] gst-plugins installation error

[John Murdie]

I've just successfully installed gstreamer-0.8.1 from source on my
Slackware Linux system - very straightforward. My subsequent configure
of gst-plugins-0.8.1 also went well (the only omissions were of plugins
I don't need at this time requiring prerequisites I have not got), as
did the 'make', but the 'make install' terminated with:

> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../gst-libs -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -pthread -I/usr/local/pkg/gstreamer-0.8.1/include/gstreamer-0.8 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DGST_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -I/usr/include/mpeg2dec -g -O2 -MT
> libgstmpeg2dec_la-gstmpeg2dec.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgstmpeg2dec_la-gstmpeg2dec.Tpo -c gstmpeg2dec.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libgstmpeg2dec_la-gstmpeg2dec.o
> gstmpeg2dec.c: In function `gst_mpeg2dec_negotiate_format':
> gstmpeg2dec.c:353: syntax error before '*' token
> gstmpeg2dec.c:361: `sequence' undeclared (first use in this function)
> gstmpeg2dec.c:361: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> gstmpeg2dec.c:361: for each function it appears in.)
> make[2]: *** [libgstmpeg2dec_la-gstmpeg2dec.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gst-plugins-0.8.1/ext/mpeg2dec'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gst-plugins-0.8.1/ext'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> 

I'll investigate and work around this, but I thought you should know
immediately I saw this error. I'll happily supply more details on
request, but probably won't be here again before Monday.

John A. Murdie
Department of Computer Science
University of York
UK