On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Arvind R <arvin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <
>> barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Arvind R <arvin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>>>> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
>>>> > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Arvind R <arvin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Hi all,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> After getting xine backend working in emotion, tried generic (vlc)
>>>> >> backend. Nope - doesn't work -:(
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Problem 1: Using the example source, now need to add:
>>>> >> emotion_object_module_option_set(em, "player", "vlc");
>>>> >>
>>>> >> It does not fall-back to the default generic player.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Problem 2:
>>>> >> em_player_vlc cannot be found, because generic_module_init() fails to
>>>> >> set the prefixes proper.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> So put printf() and recompiled. (Is there is a small howto on the eina
>>>> >> logging system?) Output:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> evas engine: <auto>
>>>> >> emotion backend: generic
>>>> >> vis: 0
>>>> >> geometry: 0 0 960x540
>>>> >> generic_module_init: initing libdir to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > this seems wrong already, is it PACKAGE_LIB_DIR? why does it contain
>>>> > x86_64-linux-gnu? in Makefile.am it's just $(libdir), did you specify
>>>> > something with --libdir?
>>>> >
>>>> Yes. '$prefix/lib/$DEB_ARCH. The x86_64-linux-gnu is correct.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >> generic_module_init: got libdir /usr/lib/lib
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > yet another very weird result. double "lib" in the path? Where are you
>>>> > installing these things?
>>>> >
>>>> > eina_prefix_new() will use the given symbol (emotion_object_add) and
>>>> dladdr
>>>> > to know which file it came from. Should be the libemotion.so. Then it
>>>> gets
>>>> > the directory where libemotion.so is contained, should be /usr/lib if
>>>> it's
>>>> > /usr/lib/libemotion.so. Then it will remove the "lib" part to get the
>>>> > prefix, later adding this again (this is what it should do, did not
>>>> test to
>>>> > see if it's correct).
>>>> >
>>>> Ah-ah! The logic is IMHO, wrong! My installation is a multiarch debian
>>>> install. The x86_64 libdir is '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' and 32-bit
>>>> version in 'usr/lib32' on a x86_64-linux-gnu system and '/usr/lib/' on
>>>> a 'x86-linux-gnu' system. The modules get installed in sub-dirs of the
>>>> library, e.g. libemotion.so gets installed in
>>>> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/' and emotion modules in
>>>> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/emotion/'.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ok, got it and from this commit it seems to be handled
>>> http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/74709
>>>
>>> (I mean the message, not the logic, will check that later).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> This makes the 'MODULE_ARCH' variable in autoconf files unnecessary;
>>>>
>>>
>>> not really as it also includes efl version. Also will allow installing to
>>> shared /usr, like NFS used by multiple platforms (ppc, x86...)... in
>>> theory, because in practice half of EFL doesn't conform with that (emotion,
>>> ecore_imf, eeze/sensors, evas cserve2 binaries, efreet binaries...). I plan
>>> to fix those soon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> and, as I have on my system (untested -:(), a lib32 AND a x86_64
>>>> installation possible. This will conform to most packaging systems
>>>> AFAIK, and definitely to Debian.
>>>> If the logic is modified to scan from right to left the absence of
>>>> '^lib' substring to get the prefix, and later add ALL the subsequent
>>>> parts, all will be fine. Better still, have eina_prefix_new take the
>>>> $PREFIX value too to enable a left-to-right scan.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll check the logic, but it's worth for you to check if you have that
>>> patch in your version.
>>>
>>
>> the logic assumes a magic file to check. That's why most libraries started
>> to ship with "checkme" files.
>
> checkme files for eeze|efreet|ecore-imf|evas installed in /usr/share/
>>
>> I did a fix for single tree efl as r82429. It would be nice if someone
>> could backport this to stable branch.
>
> Will check with current tip.
>>
-:( Now have to set link from /usr/lib/emotion to
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/emotion
Problem IMHO not fixed.
>
> Arvind

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