Compiling GStreamer using repo

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 10:14 +0200, Gianluca Pacchiella wrote:

Hi,

> Since once in a while I experiment with GStreamer latest versions and
> I like to compile it from source. In order to do it reliably I created
> a repo manifest in this github repository
> 
>   https://github.com/gipi/gstreamer-repo
> 
> The steps to follow are
> 
>  $ mkdir gst && cd gst
>  $ repo init -u https://github.com/gipi/gstreamer-repo
>  $ repo sync
>  $ vim master/gstreamer/scripts/gst-uninstalled
>  # change line HOME=
>  $ ln -sf master/gstreamer/scripts/gst-uninstalled gst-master
>  $ ./gst-master
>  $ for p in gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad; do \
>     cd "$p" && ./autogen.sh --prefix=$PWD/../prefix/ && make && make install && cd -; \
>     done
> 
> I don't know if this can be useful to anyone, let me know your impressions,
> and CC me since I'm not subscribed to this list.

This looks very similar to the create-uninstalled-setup.sh script in
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/scripts combined
with the git-update.sh script.

Cheers
 -Tim