gstreamer-plugins-libvisual

[Robert McKenzie]

Sir,

Regarding the above, I ran into a problem with gmerlin in that it would 
not build and then did some searching, thinking and some experimentation.

What I have come up with is that the gstreamer-plugins-libvisual port 
pulls in the old version of libvisual even if libvisual04 is installed 
and the old version has been removed.

The problem is that when it pulls in libvisual rather than using 
libvisual04, it then upsets gmerlin build because that uses the first 
libvisual it comes across which is libvisual that doesn't have the 
required declarations rather than libvisual04 which does.  Once I 
realised what was happening I removed libvisual while leaving 
libvisual04 and gmerlin then compiled.  After that, I rebuilt 
gstreamer-plugins-libvisual and it pulled in libvisual even though 
gmerlin had built using libvisual04 successfully.

I have no idea how to fix this apparently errant behaviour nor what 
should be done to fix this problem so that it does occur again but it 
would be good if something could be done to have 
gstreamer-plugins-libvisual use libvisual04 properly without pulling in 
libvisual which then causes problems with other builds.

It would be easy enough to edit the Makefile but as soon as I updated 
the ports tree which is current, the problem would be reintroduced.

Hopefully you can do something to rectify the situation.

Regards,
Robert McKenzie.