[yocto] How can I build gstreamer and its plugins without x11?

[Chris Tapp]

On 25 Sep 2012, at 23:21, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 September 2012 23:12:12 Ross Burton wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 at 21:51, Chris Tapp wrote:
>>> I'm trying to build gstreamer to run on a system that does not have x11
>>> (for audio and to stream video). It seems as if gst-plugins-good-id3demux
>>> needs x11: ...
>>> ERROR: Required build target 'task-sjs' has no buildable providers.
>>> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['task-sjs',
>>> 'gst-plugins-good-id3demux', 'pulseaudio', 'consolekit',
>>> 'virtual/libx11']
>> I'm not entirely sure why a demuxer is depending on pulseaudio, but you'll
>> hit this somewhere else.
>> 
>> pulseaudio's build dependency on consolekit is entirely spurious and I've
>> fixed this in master.  pulseaudio-server then has a runtime dependency on
>> consolekit which you could argue should be a recommends - in Guacamayo for
>> now we're just removing that dependency as we're not using consolekit.
> Hmm, I think an item that fell off my todo list was to make the gstreamer 
> pulseaudio dependency conditional on pulseaudio being in DISTRO_FEATURES after 
> I added that feature. I think we should still do that, not sure if it's too 
> late for the current development cycle though - at least it's not too 
> intrusive since pulseaudio is a backfilled feature.

I've removed the gst-plugins-good dependency on pulseaudio but I've now got a problem with gtk+ being pulled in. I tried removing the deps on gconf and gtk+ but gtk+ is still being built. I've tried looking at the .dot file for gst-plugins-good, but I can't see why it's still there...

> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Chris Tapp

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