Building GStreamer using Cerbero failing.

[North48]

I'm trying to install the latest GStreamer 1.12.3 (or close to it) on a new
install of Raspbian Stretch.  Apt-get installs an older version. So I
followed the suggested steps in:
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/installing/building-from-source-using-cerbero.html

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero
cerbero bootstrap
cerbero package gstreamer-1.0

The last step crashes as shown below (last section of output copied).  Not
sure what I did wrong.  Is there another way to install the latest
GStreamer?




HEAD is now at 60e4250 make executable
Running command 'git clone /home/pi/cerbero/build/sources/local/libffi -s -b
cerbero_build .'
Cloning into '.'...
done.
Running command 'git config user.email'
Running command 'git config user.email "[hidden email]"'
Running command 'git config user.name'
Running command 'git config user.name "Cerbero Build System"'
Running command 'git submodule init'
Running command 'git submodule sync'
Running command 'git submodule update'
Running command 'git submodule sync'
Running command 'git am --ignore-whitespace
/home/pi/cerbero/recipes/libffi/0001-libffi-Don-t-be-smart-about-toolexeclibdir.patch'

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "[hidden email]"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: empty ident name (for <(null)>) not allowed

Recipe 'libffi' failed at the build step 'extract'
Select an action to proceed:
[0] Enter the shell
[1] Rebuild the recipe from scratch
[2] Rebuild starting from the failed step
[3] Skip recipe
[4] Abort




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[Nicolas Dufresne-5]

Le vendredi 17 novembre 2017 à 14:12 -0700, North48 a écrit :
> *** Please tell me who you are.
>
> Run
>
>   git config --global user.email "[hidden email]"
>   git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Have you considered running through the instructions that you have been
given ? This will simply setup git, it's not us, git requires that.

Nicolas
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[North48]

Hi Nicolas,

I'm clearly still learning the ropes on this.  I've successfully built GStreamer before pulling from git without an account.  I was able to create a local clone and run cerbero bootstrap without an issue.  It was only when I ran cerbero package gstreamer-1.0 that I ran in to problems and didn't think the underlying problem was with permissions on git.  I was able to resolve my problem, but also realised that I completely misunderstood what cerbero was intended for.  I'm going back to my old approach of installing GStreamer for 1.10 on Jessie and working on updating it for 1.12 on Stretch.

Thanks again for your help.

Dayle

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Subject: Re: Building GStreamer using Cerbero failing.

Le vendredi 17 novembre 2017 à 14:12 -0700, North48 a écrit :
> *** Please tell me who you are.
>
> Run
>
>   git config --global user.email "[hidden email]"
>   git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Have you considered running through the instructions that you have been given ? This will simply setup git, it's not us, git requires that.

Nicolas
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