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O.K, I have a previous installation of gstreamer-0.8.11. I'll try to dismiss it, but it may not be trivial. |
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B.T.W |
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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. |
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Nadav. |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: news on behalf of Duncan |
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Sent: Wed 10-Oct-07 11:27 |
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To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gnome installation problem: unreslved references in the gst libraries |
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"Nadav Horesh" <nadavh@×××××××××××.com> posted |
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710F2847B0018641891D9A21602763600B6DF0@×××××××××××××××.il, excerpted |
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below, on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:13:16 +0200: |
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> I set the compilation flags to the recommended (-O2 -march=k -pipe) |
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Hope the above is a typo. That should be -march=k8 (you missed the 8). |
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I'd simply assume it was a typo and not mention it, but if that turned |
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out to be the problem... =8^( |
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> and the make option to J1, re-emerged |
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> the whole gstream&friends packages. But it did not help. It looks that |
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> the problem is that when trying to emerge media-related gnome packages |
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> they are not linked against the right gstxxx libraries. |
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Well, it was a shot in the dark anyway... |
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BTW, something in the above prodded my memory... You don't still happen |
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to have the old gstreamer 0.8 series do you? Current is 0.10 series, and |
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it's possible if you still have some of the old stuff around, that's |
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what's causing the incompatibility. |
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> Nadav. |
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> N.B. |
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> 1. I am a speed freak, thus I use XFCE. I use the gnome package mainly |
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> for its utilities. |
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I like speed, but I like control and features better, I think, and since |
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I have a dual Opteron, RAID, and an almost embarrassing 8 gigs memory, |
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I've obviously thrown hardware at the problem rather than go the |
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conservative memory route. =8^P (I've observed to myself several times |
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that the hardware folks should really be pushing Linux, as if folks don't |
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spend the money on software, they have that much more to spend on |
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hardware... and I've done just that! =8^) |
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Still, I'd certainly try and may stay xfce if I were running a more |
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conventional single disk, single cpu/core, half-gig memory or less |
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system. Of course, I'd be much more likely to be doing it on a binary |
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distribution instead of Gentoo in that case, but anyway... |
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2. I did use your recommended flags as you mentioned. |
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=8^) I figured that was too close to be coincidence. |
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The main thing I worry about is that while yes, it's great playing around |
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with these nice fancy CFLAG options, I hope that folks don't miss the |
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fact that to some extent it is "out there" a bit, and as such, it /will/ |
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mean fighting with things every once in awhile to get stuff compiled, |
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where a more conservative "-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" will be /almost/ as good, |
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and more likely to "just work", with less emerge failures and the like. |
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I recognize that not all computer users have the luxury of treating |
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computing as a hobby, as I do, and that some prefer it "just work", and |
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the less hassle to get to that state, the happier they'll be. (I OTOH |
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enjoy a bit of a challenge on occasion, the precise reason I like |
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bleeding edge. If it always "just worked", I'd be about as likely to |
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find it interesting as a hobby as I am to find staring at the microwave |
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or freezer "interesting"! =8^) |
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The concern therefore is that folks will grab my options and then wonder |
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why they don't always work, as much as it is countering the myth that |
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one /cannot/ run such options regularly, and only the ricers and insane |
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try. It's fine to want to experiment and run unusual cflags and test new |
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packages, and in fact, /someone/ as to do it, as long as you realize the |
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extra investment in time and occasional hassle it's likely to bring with |
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it. =8^) |
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But it looks like you are pretty well aware of the issues already, and |
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have made your choice knowing the tradeoffs. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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