gst-env.py does not set GST_PLUGIN_PATH

[jim]

Hi All,

This is my first time building gstreamer from the mono repo using meson/ninja. I was missing libcairo2-dev and the cairo-gobject.pc file had the wrong prefix, but after correcting that, things seemed to build correctly. I'm using Ubuntu 21.10.

I tried using gst-env.py but I ran into a problem: GST_PLUGIN_PATH is empty in the new shell. I tried with --only-environment and saw GST_PLUGIN_PATH  was quite long ... 14k characters long.  So possibly trying to export/set the env var fails? Is this a known issue? 

GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-libav/ext/libav:/home/jnualart/git/gstreame
r/build/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst/videoconvert:/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-plugi
ns-bad/gst/siren:/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-python/plugin:/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer
/build/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst/playback:/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-plugins-ug
ly/gst/asfdemux:/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/apetag:/home/jnualart/git/
gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/ext/gl:/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-plugins
-bad/sys/dvb:/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst/gaudieffects:/home/jnualart/gi
t/gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst/videofilters:/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer/build/subprojects/
gst-plugins-bad/gst/proxy:/home/jnualart/git/gstreamer/build/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/ext/cairo:/home/jnua......... etc etc etc

Is there an option to automatically collect all the plugins in one location?

thanks,
-jim