GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 334303
Stale libgnomeui check in configure
Last modified: 2006-03-12 14:33:08 UTC
gstreamer's configure script checks for the libgnomeui library. This library was once used by one of the examples from the manual; see tests/old/examples/manual/Makefile.am. Note that this code is in the tests/old subdirectory, so it is now unused (until someone adapts it to 0.10, if I understood it correctly). In the meantime, I think that it'd be good if the extra "cruft" was removed. This could allow confusion. E.g., while packaging gstreamer 0.10 I saw that it needed this library and was tempted to make the package depend on libgnomeui. Upon further inspection, I saw that this dependency was a "false positive". Other people can be confused as well. Furthermore, if this test is readded in the future, it'd be nice if it was done in a way that didn't force the whole gstreamer package to depend on libgnomeui. After all, it is only used for a single example and is not needed at all to get gstreamer working. Summarizing: configure.ac shouldn't check for libgnomeui.
Created attachment 61125 [details] [review] Sample patch.
Applied, thanks! 2006-03-12 Tim-Philipp Müller <tim at centricular dot net> Patch by: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv at netbsd org> * configure.ac: Don't check for libgnomeui (leftover from old examples that aren't built or disted any longer) (#334303).