Sorry, fixing version.

It checks for libgstcheck's existence AFAIK. What distro are you using? Is this with GStreamer from packages or compiled from source?

How does it fail - could you provide the 'make' error output?

gstreamer built from SVN trunk. I installed not libgstcheck but the 'check' debian package. This happens only with 'gst-plugins-good', as far as I can tell.

After having uninstalled 'check', reconfigured, and built:

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/claudio/svn/gnome-2.20/gst-plugins-good/tests/check'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..     -pthread -I/opt/gnome-2.20/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/opt/gnome-2.20/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/gnome-2.20/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/opt/gnome-2.20/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10    -Wall -Werror  -g   -DGST_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -ggdb -O0 -MT autodetect.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/autodetect.Tpo" -c -o autodetect.o `test -f 'elements/autodetect.c' || echo './'`elements/autodetect.c; \
        then mv -f ".deps/autodetect.Tpo" ".deps/autodetect.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/autodetect.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
In file included from elements/autodetect.c:25:
/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10/gst/check/gstcheck.h:31:19: error: check.h: No such file or directory
In file included from elements/autodetect.c:25:
/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10/gst/check/gstcheck.h:79: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
elements/autodetect.c: In function ‘test_autovideosink_ghostpad_error_case’:
elements/autodetect.c:27: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘tcase_fn_start’
elements/autodetect.c:59: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘fail_unless’
elements/autodetect.c:77: error: ‘END_TEST’ undeclared (first use in this function)
elements/autodetect.c:77: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
elements/autodetect.c:77: error: for each function it appears in.)
elements/autodetect.c:133: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
elements/autodetect.c:134: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘autodetect_suite’
elements/autodetect.c:134: error: expected expression before ‘void’
elements/autodetect.c:135: error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’
elements/autodetect.c:135: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘{’ token
elements/autodetect.c:155: error: expected declaration or statement at end of input
make[3]: *** [autodetect.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/claudio/svn/gnome-2.20/gst-plugins-good/tests/check'

This looks like a bug in the debian libgstreamer0.10-dev dependencies list.  Since libcheck is linked statically into libgstcheck-0.10 (which comes with libgstreamer-0.10), libgstreamer0.10-0 does not need to depend on the check package, but since libgstcheck's headers include check.h, at least the -dev package needs to depend on the check package.

The gst-plugins-good configure check in CVS checks for libgstcheck, which should be sufficient.

The reason it only happens with -good is probably that that's the only module which has disabled unit tests for which we use the noinst_PROGRAMS, which is built on 'make' and not only on 'make check' like the others.  I'd guess that if you built gst-plugins-base from CVS and then did 'make check' in tests/check that wouldn't work either.

Yes, that's a bug with Debian's libgstreamer0.10-dev's package dependencies. I've fixed it locally and the fix will be in the next upload. Thanks for reporting.