Creating 1.4.5 debian packages

[Arnaud Loonstra]

I've been trying to build the 1.4.5 packages from Debian experimental on 
Raspbian.

I've managed until now:
gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0_1.4.5-1zix251_armhf.deb
gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0_1.4.5-2_amd64.deb
gstreamer1.0-alsa_1.4.5-1zix251_armhf.deb
gstreamer1.0-doc_1.4.5-2_all.deb
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base_1.4.5-1zix251_armhf.deb
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps_1.4.5-1zix251_armhf.deb
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-dbg_1.4.5-1zix251_armhf.deb
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-doc_1.4.5-1zix251_all.deb
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good_1.4.5-1.1_armhf.deb
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-dbg_1.4.5-1.1_armhf.deb
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-doc_1.4.5-1.1_all.deb
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio_1.4.5-1.1_armhf.deb
gstreamer1.0-tools_1.4.5-2_amd64.deb
gstreamer1.0-x_1.4.5-1zix251_armhf.deb
libgstreamer1.0-0_1.4.5-2_amd64.deb
libgstreamer1.0-0-dbg_1.4.5-2_amd64.deb
libgstreamer1.0-dev_1.4.5-2_amd64.deb
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.4.5-1zix251_armhf.deb
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev_1.4.5-1zix251_armhf.deb
And bad packages on the way...

Which is basically: gstreamer, plugins-base, plugins-good, plugins-bad

For plugins-bad I had lots of trouble. I've had to change debian/rules:

CPPFLAGS += -I/opt/vc/include -I/opt/vc/include/interface/vcos/pthreads 
-I/opt/vc/include/interface/vmcs_host/linux
CFLAGS += -Wno-error -I/opt/vc/include 
-I/opt/vc/include/interface/vcos/pthreads 
-I/opt/vc/include/interface/vmcs_host/linux
CXXFLAGS += -Wno-error
LDFLAGS += -lGLESv2 -L/opt/vc/lib -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
...
DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += \
         --libdir=\$${prefix}/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) \
         --disable-examples \
         --disable-opencv \
         --enable-DEBUG \
         --enable-debug \
         --enable-experimental \
         --with-package-name=$(GST_PACKAGE_NAME) \
         --with-package-origin=$(GST_PACKAGE_ORIGIN) \
         --disable-pvr \
         --disable-opengl \
         --disable-glx \
         --enable-egl \
         --enable-gles2


Especially the -lGLESv2 was weird because it only erred during 
documentation build, I think.

In debian/control I had to remove some dependencies like:
opencv
webp
curl
tls
mjpegtools
wayland

Raspbian either provides older versions or not at all.

This also made me need to change some of the .install files in order not 
give errors on missing .so files. There are probably better ways to do 
this, right?

Anyway the debs are available if anyone wants to try:
deb http://lola.z25.org/~arnaud/debian zix25/

Rg,

Arnaud
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