On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 02:55:17PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2016-11-21, Stuart Longland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Other webkit-based browsers seem to be similarly affected. They fail > > installing because there's no gstreamer1-plugins-libav package > > available. `surf` was another I tried, with identical results. It's as > > if the package went AWOL, because it clearly had to have built for > > midori and surf to be built. > > No, gstreamer1-plugins-libav is a RUN_DEPENDS. The midori and surf > packages can be _built_ without it, just not installed. Fair enough, is there much point supplying a binary package that can't be installed? I would have thought it was in RUN_DEPENDS because the application binary links against it at runtime: something it normally can only do if the relevant .so is installed on the build host at the time of linking.
Thinking about it now: gstreamer uses a dynamic loading infrastructure, so the library isn't needed to be present for building as it's gstreamer core itself that gets linked. The libav plug-in does have some MIPS32 assembly in it that can cause grief too. (And it embeds its own libav.) For what it's worth, I don't care much for multimedia playback on this machine, but I suspect it's a compile-time flag to turn it off. I'll keep hunting then, see what can be achieved. I just tried `vimb` on here, and it installs but just Bus Errors. Fun and games. At least I have lynx. :-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
