gst-plugins-good pkg-config file issues

Hello, GStreamer developer here.

Could someone please bump up the severity of this ticket ?

What ubuntu is doing here is really broken and simply not okay. It would be great if it could be sorted out quickly. Thanks.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Any change to this problem?

I have a problem when compiling with error,

configure: error: no pluginsdir set in GStreamer Good Plugins pkg-config file.

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 x64

ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-doc
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-dbg:amd64 1.2.4-1~ubuntu1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-doc

Jim pointed me to this. I'll take a look. We have the pcfile because we move some plugins downstream from -bad to -good, and this includes the gstphotography library. We made it so that the -bad pcfile has Requires on this new one, so that upstream software does not have to be modified. This is a change that was done in good faith really, and I'm sorry it's causing a problem here.

I'm adding pluginsdir to it.

The only other solution I can think of is to rename the pcfile to something else.

Thanks Iain! That should fix the most pressing issue.

I think it would still be good to rename that pc file to something else though, ideally also indicating in the name that it's ubuntu-specific, so app developers don't think it's upstream and then wonder why things won't compile elsewhere.

This bug was fixed in the package gst-plugins-good1.0 - 1.4.3-1ubuntu1

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gst-plugins-good1.0 (1.4.3-1ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian unstable; remaining changes:
    + Stop installing camerabin2 basecamerabin jpegformat - plugins which have
    moved to -good.
    + Provide gstreamer-plugins-bad-1.0.pc with Requires on
      gstreamer-plugins-good-1.0 - the package we've moved the referenced
      library to. This maintains compatibility with upstream software and
      other distributions.
    + debian/patches/adding-mirsink-and-android-media-over-hybris-support.patch:
      - Adding mirsink and Android media over hybris support, for hardware
        accelerated decode using libstagefright and the hybris compat layer.
    + debian/control.in:
      - Making the hybris plugin as part of a separated package, and i386 and
        armhf only (can only work with android compatible archs)
    + debian/build-deps.in:
      - Adding mirsink/android decoder specific build dependencies for i386 and
        armhf (libplatform-api1-dev and libmedia-dev)
    + Split videoparsers and faad out into their own packages.
    + Disable gl on armhf as it's not useful there.
  * Add 'pluginsdir' variable to our added pcfile for compatibility with some
    external software (LP: #1343970)

gst-plugins-good1.0 (1.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release.
 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:42:11 +0100

Is this the same bug? I get same error while configuring gnolin 1.4.0 from git.

configure: using GStreamer Base Plugins in /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0
checking for GST_PLUGINS_GOOD... yes
configure: error: no pluginsdir set in GStreamer Good Plugins pkg-config file
  configure failed

I still have the same problem with gst-rtsp-server 1.2.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.

And also still, apt-get remove libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-dev is a workaround.