ports/134122: multimedia/totem build fails

[Jeremy Messenger]

The following reply was made to PR ports/134122; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
To: "Joe Kelsey" <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/134122: multimedia/totem build fails
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 06:26:22 -0500

 On Thu, 07 May 2009 22:07:46 -0500, Joe Kelsey <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us>  
 wrote:
 
 > Jeremy Messenger wrote:
 >> marcus means that we want you to follow this:  
 >> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html
 >>
 >> The multimedia/gstreamer-plugins has what the Totem's configure is  
 >> looking for.
 >>
 > This is, in fact, a false statement.  I performed the action of
 
 Uh? You can't say that because you have no clue. See here:
 
 ---------------------------------------
 # gst-inspect-0.10 playbin | grep /lib
    Filename:		/usr/local/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstplaybin.so
 
 # grep playbin /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins/pkg-plist
 lib/gstreamer-%%VERSION%%/libgstplaybin.la
 lib/gstreamer-%%VERSION%%/libgstplaybin.so
 ---------------------------------------
 
 > portupgrade -f gstreamer\*
 >
 > at least THREE times before submitting a bug report.  Joe, apparantly,  
 > did not care to pay attention to what I wrote.
 >
 > I could not determine any emthod of solving the problem since no clues  
 > existed anywhere on my system that I could find.  No trace of anything  
 > missing or not properly installed realted to gstreamer.  No clue where  
 > to find this mysterious "playbin" program without individually looking  
 > at every single uninstalled port on the system and searching for the  
 > file.
 >
 > The only thing that I could determine on my own was that totem kept not  
 > building.
 >
 > The completely unhelpful message from marcus simply told me to do what I  
 > had already done over, and over, and over and did not answer the  
 > specific question that I asked:  Where the heck is "playbin" and why  
 > don't I have it?
 
 Already pointed you there about that it's in gstreamer-plugins. Can't help  
 you without have you follow the bugging.html, because I have no and no  
 clue without your detail.
 
 Cheers,
 Mezz
 
 > /Joe
 >
 >> Cheers,
 >> Mezz
 
 
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