Re: [Libvisual-users] LIBVISUAL 0.2.0PRE1 ***PLEASE TEST THIS***

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 05:16 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On 01/31/2005 06:10:46 PM, Dennis Smit wrote:
> > Heya fellahs,
> > 
> > Major changes went into libvisual, some might be unstable, even
> > completely broken.
> > 
> > I've put online libvisual 0.2.0pre1, PLEASE test this release, report
> > if it works, and especially if it does NOT work!
> 
> Fedora Core 3
> 
> uninstalled previous libvisual stuff completely
> 
> compiled libvisual and then libvisual-plugins and then libvisual-xmms
> 
> Build methos was via rpm
> 
> During build of libvisual-plugins, the make install threw all the  
> plugins into
> 
> %buildroot/usr/lib
> 
> the .la files did have correct path ( /usr/lib/libvisual/whatever/ )  
> but that's not where they were installed (it is in the stable version)

I don't have much experience with building rpm packages, however
using the .spec file, this should be solved ?

Or, what should I do with the spec file, is it advisible to include it
in the CVS development tree ?

> However - when I had the spec file manually create the directorys and  
> move the plugins - they work fine with the xmms-plugin
> 
> Note on the xmms plugin - when it starts from cli, it complains that it  
> failed to load /usr/lib/libvisual/transform

Nothing harmful, point is that there are no transform plugins yet, so
the directory isn't created :).

> Just earlier this month - GStreamer put out a bunch of updates, and the  
> libvisual plugins worked in totem again - I haven't tried with the  
> 0.2.0 libvisual, but if there is a problem - then I'm guessing that's a  
> GStreamer-plugins patch that would be needed.

I think they'll have to update.


> I'll try that tomorrow afternoon (rebuild the libvisual gstreamer  
> plugin and see if it builds and works)
> 
> But other than the makefile issue in the rpm specfile with where the  
> plugins go, it seems to work. Attached is that specfile.

Thanks a lot for testing, this is much appreciated!

Cheerios,
Dennis