Gstreamer 1.9.1 vs 1.4.4 conflicts (Debian 8)

[Piper984]

Hello,

<background>
I have been using GStreamer 1.5.x on Ubuntu and Raspbian since ~Dec 2014 successfully for a project I am working on.  I have a need to move the code running on Raspbian (Raspberry Pi) to Debian (Snapdragon).  Unfortunately the version of Gstreamer in the Snapdragon's repro maintained by the 96Boards Debian team is older than 1.5.  I believe I require 1.5 or higher as there were some fixes to RTP headers made then.  My code that links to Gstreamer doesn't seem to work until I get newer builds of the libgstrtpmananger.so installed anyways.

I pulled the source packages down from git ( git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/MODULES), and got everything to build just fine under Debian i686 and also on the Snapdragon board.  But, I seem to have some install/path issues that I am not able to resolve.
</background>

<my_issue>
I have successfully built GStreamer 1.9.1 (including plugins base, good, ugly, and bad) from source on Debian 8 i686.  I was able to ./autogen.sh,  make, and then sudo make install with no issues.

However, when I run gst-inspect-1.0 --version, the old 1.4.4. version of GStreamer is getting picked up when I expect to see 1.9.1:

chris@debian:~/gstreamer$ gst-inspect-1.0 --version
gst-inspect-1.0 version 1.9.1
GStreamer 1.4.4
Unknown package origin

When the same building steps are done under Ubuntu 14.04, the new version of GStreamer is shown when I execute gst-inspect-1.0, and more importantly to me my custom software that links to the GStreamer libs compiles and runs.

Why is Debian finding the older binaries from the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ directory and not /usr/local/lib/ ? Here is the output when I run pkg-config for the libs I use:

chris@debian:~/gstreamer$ pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-1.0 gstreamer-rtp-1.0
-pthread -I/usr/local/include/gstreamer-1.0 -I/usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -L/usr/local/lib -lgstrtp-1.0 -lgstbase-1.0 -lgstreamer-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0

This is the same output as under Ubuntu 14.04, so I'm getting a bit lost now. Any help/guidance is appreciated!  I am not really a sysadmin guy, so hopefully there is just some idiot setting I missed that I need to pass to my ./autogen.sh step that is a default under Ubuntu?
 
</my_issue>

[Piper984]

As it turned out, I did have some basic pathing issue.  Executing this before building solved my issue:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local

Now gst-inspect-1.0 --version shows 1.9.1.  I still had an issue w/ running my custom software, but when I just moved the newly built libgstrtpmanager.so file into the same directory as my executable all started to work.  Atleast under i686.  Now that this is working, I'm off to try it on my Snapdragon board (Dragon 410c board running Debian).

[Arun Raghavan-4]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, at 07:06 PM, Piper984 wrote:

> As it turned out, I did have some basic pathing issue.  Executing this
> before
> building solved my issue:
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/local/lib
> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local
>
> Now gst-inspect-1.0 --version shows 1.9.1.  I still had an issue w/
> running
> my custom software, but when I just moved the newly built
> libgstrtpmanager.so file into the same directory as my executable all
> started to work.  Atleast under i686.  Now that this is working, I'm off
> to
> try it on my Snapdragon board (Dragon 410c board running Debian).

In general, you're likely better off using a gst-uninstalled setup.
There are directions to do this at:

  http://arunraghavan.net/2014/07/quick-start-guide-to-gst-uninstalled-1-x/

-- Arun
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