[gst-devel] MAS plugin and problems

[Leon Shiman]

Hi -

if you'd like our help in clearing up MAS issues, let me know,or write to: 	
	mas-devel at alex.shiman.com.

we'll need help with gst.

leon 


Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:07:15 +0500 Zeeshan Ali wrote:
>
>Hello,
>   I've hacked on the rotten mas plugin and now it works prefectly
>well. But there are two things i need help on:
>
>1. Is the freeze over now? Can i comit?
>
>2. I just figured out why adding the following lines in the
>configure.ac made the generated configure script to vomit weird
>sed-related errors:
>
>translit(dnm, m, l) AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_MAS, true)
>GST_CHECK_FEATURE(MAS, [mas], mas, [
>   GST_CHECK_CONFIGPROG(MAS, mas-config)
>   AC_SUBST(MAS_CFLAGS)
>   AC_SUBST(MAS_LIBS)
>])
>
>   The problem lies in this code generated by GST_CHECK_CONFIGPROG
>macro in the configure script:
>
> MAS_LIBS=`"mas-config" --plugin-libs  2> /dev/null`
>    if test "x$MAS_LIBS" = x; then
>      MAS_LIBS=`"mas-config" --libs `
>    fi
>
>   mas-config does'nt support the --plugin-libs option and so it
>vomits an error message to the stdout and not the stderr which is
>being redirected to /dev/null here. So whose fault is this? mas-config
>or our GST_CHECK_CONFIGPROG macro? More importantly who is going to
>change?
>