Compiling Software from Source, Part XI

Compiling Software from Source, Part XI

Isn’t this a long series? Let’s see if we can get past the vexing problem that pounced me last time. It hit when I was trying to autoconfigure gnome-media. Since I’m a glass-half-full optimist, I’ll give that another try. Dang, of course it doesn’t work.

The confusing thing is that the configuration tool is looking for gstreamer-0.5.pc, but the gstreamer I installed is 0.6. It’s also looking for gstreamer-libs-0.6.pc, however. I try locate gstreamer-libs-0.6 and only find them mentioned in the docs directory of the gstreamer tool. I wonder if somehow the packages weren’t installed properly, or I forgot to install it after compiling? Stranger things have happened. I’ll try compiling and installing gstreamer once again. I do the ./configure and then a make clean to make sure I’ve got a clean slate, and then make and make install.

Once this process is complete, I try configuring gnome-media once again. Once again, it fails. Now I try the following:

<br /> # find / -name gstreamer*pc<br /> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/gstreamer-0.6.pc<br /> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/gstreamer-control-0.6.pc<br /> /home/dee/Downloads/GNOME2.2.1/gstreamer-0.6.0/pkgconfig/gstreamer.pc<br /> /home/dee/Downloads/GNOME2.2.1/gstreamer-0.6.0/pkgconfig/gstreamer-uninstalled.pc<br /> /home/dee/Downloads/GNOME2.2.1/gstreamer-0.6.0/pkgconfig/gstreamer-control.pc<br /> /home/dee/Downloads/GNOME2.2.1/gstreamer-0.6.0/pkgconfig/gstreamer-control-uninstalled.pc<br /> /home/dee/Downloads/GNOME2.2.1/gstreamer-0.6.0/pkgconfig/gstreamer-0.6.pc<br /> /home/dee/Downloads/GNOME2.2.1/gstreamer-0.6.0/pkgconfig/gstreamer-control-0.6.pc<br /> /home/dee/Downloads/GNOME2.2.1/gstreamer-0.6.0/pkgconfig/gstreamer-0.6-uninstalled.pc<br /> /home/dee/Downloads/GNOME2.2.1/gstreamer-0.6.0/pkgconfig/gstreamer-control-0.6-uninstalled.pc<br />

In frustration, I look into my RPMs:

<br /> # rpm -q gstreamer<br /> gstreamer-0.6.0-4<br /> # rpm -q gstreamer-libs<br /> package gstreamer-libs is not installed<br /> # rpm -qa | grep streamer<br /> gstreamer-0.6.0-4<br /> gstreamer-tools-0.6.0-4<br /> gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-6<br />

So, I could solve this by installing the gstreamer libraries via RPM. I check on my Red Hat CDs and there’s a gstreamer-devel package (devel packages often contain libraries), so I use:

<br /> # rpm -ivh gstreamer-devel-0.6.0-4.i386.rpm<br /> Preparing… ########################################### [100%]<br /> 1:gstreamer-devel ########################################### [100%]<br />

Now to try auto-configuring gnome-media once again. That doesn’t fix it either! I try the following:

<br /> # rpm -ql gstreamer-devel | more<br /> /usr/include/gstreamer-0.6<br /> /usr/include/gstreamer-0.6/gst<br /> /usr/include/gstreamer-0.6/gst/bytestream<br /> /usr/include/gstreamer-0.6/gst/bytestream/bytestream.h<br /> …<br /> /usr/include/gstreamer-0.6/gst/putbits<br /> /usr/include/gstreamer-0.6/gst/putbits/putbits.h<br /> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gstreamer-0.6.pc<br /> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gstreamer-control-0.6.pc<br />

So, the RPM doesn’t even contain a gstreamer-libs file. Grumble. Okay, there were some other gstreamer RPMs I think I don’t have installed: gstreamer-plugins, gstreamer-plugins-devel, and gstreamer tools. Let’s try:

<br /> # rpm -qlp gstreamer-* | grep gstreamer-libs<br /> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gstreamer-libs-0.6.pc<br />

Ah ha! Now I’ll be lazy:

<br /> # rpm -ivh gstreamer-*<br /> Preparing… ########################################### [100%]<br /> package gstreamer-tools-0.6.0-4 is already installed<br /> package gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-6 is already installed<br />

Oops, guess it’s in gstreamer-plugins-devel:

<br /> # rpm -ivh gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-6.i386.rpm<br /> Preparing… ########################################### [100%]<br /> 1:gstreamer-plugins-devel########################################### [100%]<br />

Now, I’ll try configuring gnome-media yet again. Yay, I got past that finally. Now it wants the gail tool. After uncompressing it and unpacking it, that one configures and compiles without a fuss.

Time to try gnome-media again. The configuration actually completes! Now I compile and install it. Phew.

Next week: Will this series ever end?