[gst-devel] Reentrancy patch for gst_parse_lauch and flex version requirements

[Zaheer Merali]

On 7/30/06, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> wrote:
> hi,
>
> This weekend Marc-Andre has provided a patch in
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349180
> to make the gst_parse_launch reentrant.
>
> Unfortunately Fedora core 4/5 ships an ancient version of flex which
> can't do the reentrancy. As this is only a build dependency, what do you
> think about bumping the requirement. Just for your information flext
> 2.5.4.a ist from 1997. The release from 2003 would do it. So we would
> not require anything bleeding edge.
>
> Stefan & Marc-Andre
>

Hi

Having spoken in the channel, this re-entrancy issue could potentially
be a problem for the gconf plugins, gconfaudiosrc, gconfaudiosink etc.

It would howver be nice to be shown valgrind output of a gst-launch
line with gconfaudiosink in for example.

Zaheer