917948 - Misleading configure error on Fedora 18: "configure: error: gstreamer-plugins-base found, but no libgstvideo"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect, P5)

Description

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

Seen after 

$ sudo yum install gstreamer-devel.i686 gstreamer-plugins-base-devel.i686

(Cross-compiling on x86-64.)  The error message is

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checking GSTREAMER_LIBS... -pthread -lgstapp-0.10 -lgstbase-0.10 -lgstreamer-0.10 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lxml2 -lglib-2.0  
configure: error: gstreamer-plugins-base found, but no libgstvideo. Something has gone terribly wrong. Try reinstalling gstreamer-plugins-base; failing that, disable the gstreamer backend with --disable-gstreamer.
------ config.log ------
...snip...
configure:21214: ccache gcc -m32 -o conftest  -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-math-errno -pthread  -lpthread  -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,-z,text -Wl,--build-id -B /home/cjones/rr/ff-rr/build/unix/gold -pthread -lgstapp-0.10 -lgstbase-0.10 -lgstreamer-0.10 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lxml2 -lglib-2.0   -lgstvideo-0.10 conftest.c -ldl  1>&5
/home/cjones/rr/ff-rr/build/unix/gold/ld: error: cannot find -lxml2
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
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So what's actually going wrong is a missing libxml2.  An additional

$ sudo yum install libxml2-devel.i686

fixes things up.

(I know this is technically Core:Build Config, but I'm guessing the configure check was written by someone more likely to be watching Core:V/A.)

Comment 1

[Alessandro Decina]

This looks like a bug in rpm dependencies to me, since gstreamer-devel should depend on libxml2-devel. Anyone against closing this?

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

gstreamer is going in bug 1234092