[gst-devel] Running gstreamer in MAC OS X -- Leopard

[Mattias Barthel]

Hi,

Try:

export GST_REGISTRY_FORK=no

Mattias

Philip Joseph wrote:
> Hi-
>
> Thanks for the prompt response and the suggestions.
>
> Setting the GST_REGISTRY_FORK to "no" doesn't seem to work for me.  I was trying
> to determine what the problem was, but I was unsuccessful in doing so. 
>
> I put the following line in my .bash_profile to set the GST_REGISTRY_FORK
> environment variable, and I verified using the "set" command that the variable
> is set.  Is this all I needed to do?
>
> -------------
> GST_REGISTRY_FORK=no
> -------------
>
>
> I did pull the latest off of head, and my initial build had some problems with
> the ./po/gstreamer-0.10.pot file, but after replacing that file with the version
> from the 0.10.19 tar file, everything worked out fine.
>
> The error I was getting with the gstreamer-0.10.pot file on HEAD is the
> following:
>
> -----------
> Making all in po
> /usr/local/bin/msgmerge --update af.po gstreamer-0.10.pot
> .......................... done.
> /usr/local/bin/msgmerge: `af.po': No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [af.po] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> -----------
>
> Any thoughts on what could be wrong with this file or with the setting of the
> GST_REGISTRY_FORK environment variable?  
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
>
>
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> ---- On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Julien Moutte (julien at moutte.net) wrote:
>
>
> I think I fixed this already by making sure that on darwin we are not 
> forking to update registry.
>
> Please try again in latest CVS head of GStreamer core.
>
> Julien
>
> Michael Smith wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Philip Joseph  wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi-
>>>
>>>   I have built gstreamer in MAC OS  (Leopard) and I am attempting to run it.
>>>  When I call gst-launch (with or without arguments), I get the following
>>>       
> output
>   
>>>  many times:
>>>
>>>  ------
>>>  The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality
>>>  safely. You MUST exec().
>>>  Break on
>>>
>>>       
> __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
>   
>>>  to debug.
>>>  ------
>>>     
>>>       
>> There's an open bug about this; nobody has stepped up to write a fix for it
>>     
> yet.
>   
>> A workaround is to set the environment variable GST_REGISTRY_FORK=no
>> (the downside of that is that memory usage will be substantially
>> higher if the registry needs re-scanning).
>>
>> Mike
>>
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