O.K, I have a previous installation of gstreamer-0.8.11. I'll try to dismiss it, but it may not be trivial.
B.T.W The speed of xfce (at least relative to gnome) come from that that most desktop actions are at your fingertips, so don't have to move your arm that much. Nadav. -----Original Message----- From: news on behalf of Duncan Sent: Wed 10-Oct-07 11:27 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gnome installation problem: unreslved references in the gst libraries "Nadav Horesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:13:16 +0200: > I set the compilation flags to the recommended (-O2 -march=k -pipe) Hope the above is a typo. That should be -march=k8 (you missed the 8). I'd simply assume it was a typo and not mention it, but if that turned out to be the problem... =8^( > and the make option to J1, re-emerged > the whole gstream&friends packages. But it did not help. It looks that > the problem is that when trying to emerge media-related gnome packages > they are not linked against the right gstxxx libraries. Well, it was a shot in the dark anyway... BTW, something in the above prodded my memory... You don't still happen to have the old gstreamer 0.8 series do you? Current is 0.10 series, and it's possible if you still have some of the old stuff around, that's what's causing the incompatibility. > Nadav. > > N.B. > > 1. I am a speed freak, thus I use XFCE. I use the gnome package mainly > for its utilities. I like speed, but I like control and features better, I think, and since I have a dual Opteron, RAID, and an almost embarrassing 8 gigs memory, I've obviously thrown hardware at the problem rather than go the conservative memory route. =8^P (I've observed to myself several times that the hardware folks should really be pushing Linux, as if folks don't spend the money on software, they have that much more to spend on hardware... and I've done just that! =8^) Still, I'd certainly try and may stay xfce if I were running a more conventional single disk, single cpu/core, half-gig memory or less system. Of course, I'd be much more likely to be doing it on a binary distribution instead of Gentoo in that case, but anyway... 2. I did use your recommended flags as you mentioned. =8^) I figured that was too close to be coincidence. The main thing I worry about is that while yes, it's great playing around with these nice fancy CFLAG options, I hope that folks don't miss the fact that to some extent it is "out there" a bit, and as such, it /will/ mean fighting with things every once in awhile to get stuff compiled, where a more conservative "-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" will be /almost/ as good, and more likely to "just work", with less emerge failures and the like. I recognize that not all computer users have the luxury of treating computing as a hobby, as I do, and that some prefer it "just work", and the less hassle to get to that state, the happier they'll be. (I OTOH enjoy a bit of a challenge on occasion, the precise reason I like bleeding edge. If it always "just worked", I'd be about as likely to find it interesting as a hobby as I am to find staring at the microwave or freezer "interesting"! =8^) The concern therefore is that folks will grab my options and then wonder why they don't always work, as much as it is countering the myth that one /cannot/ run such options regularly, and only the ricers and insane try. It's fine to want to experiment and run unusual cflags and test new packages, and in fact, /someone/ as to do it, as long as you realize the extra investment in time and occasional hassle it's likely to bring with it. =8^) But it looks like you are pretty well aware of the issues already, and have made your choice knowing the tradeoffs. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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