Bug 301932 – www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8_p347[-gnome] fails autoconf

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Väth 2010-01-23 14:20:59 UTC]

When trying to emerge www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8_p347 (with USE=-gnome)
on a non-GNOME system (in particular, gnome-base/gconf is not installed),
autoconf (from eautoreconf) fails. The corresponding eautoconf.out contains
the line

configure.in:96: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2

Please do *not* fix this problem my making gnome-base/gconf mandatory:
It would be horrible to have mplayer plugins only on gnome-system!
Since the problem did not appear with previous versions of gecko-mediaplayer,
I suppose the cause is only that eautoreconf was not called in previous
versions gecko-mediaplayer.
A simple solution is to patch (in case USE=-gnome) configure.in
to replace AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2 by a command which lets also the subsequent
automake succeed (which expects that AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2 defines
GCONF_SCHEMAS_INSTALL as a conditional). I attach a corresponding patch.
Of course, this patch should only be applied in case USE='-gnome' since it
breaks the gnome functionality...

[Comment 1 Martin Väth 2010-01-23 14:22:45 UTC]

Created attachment 217245 [details, diff]
Patch to apply (only!) with USE='-gnome' to fix compilation

[Comment 2 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2010-01-23 14:56:57 UTC]

Thanks! We'll look into it.

[Comment 3 Dror Levin (RETIRED) 2010-01-26 19:15:12 UTC]

*** Bug 302356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2010-01-26 21:57:43 UTC]

Fixed in CVS. Thanks for reporting!