Bug 771001 – gst-common modifies introspection.m4

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Bug 771001 - gst-common modifies introspection.m4


Summary:	gst-common modifies introspection.m4


Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	GStreamer
Classification:	Platform
Component:	common
Version:	1.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	NONE
Assigned To:	GStreamer Maintainers
QA Contact:	GStreamer Maintainers

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Reported:	2016-09-07 12:04 UTC by Ross Burton
Modified:	2017-07-15 11:03 UTC

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Description Ross Burton 2016-09-07 12:04:30 UTC

common/m4/introspection at first glance appears to be a simple copy of the file from gobject-introspection.m4 as the README in that directory suggests, but it has in fact been modified to add the INTROSPECTION_INIT assignment.

This is a problem because at some point the upstream introspection.m4 will be updated and this local change may be forgotten about if updated manually, or removed if updated automatically.

I propose that introspection.m4 is restored to match upstream, and the INTROSPECTION_INIT assignment added to some other place.  Maybe common/m4/gst-glib2.m4?

Comment 1 Tim-Philipp Müller 2017-07-15 11:03:52 UTC

You're right. Thanks for the report.

However, I'm going to close this as WONTFIX as we're going to move away from autotools towards Meson and I don't think it's worth bothering at this point :)