Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Preparation of Release 2.17

[Tony Theodore]

On 3 December 2010 10:26, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear mingw-cross-env team,
>
> Once again, it's time to finish things and to prepare our next release.
> I just upgraded all packages and included all contributed new packages.
>
> Please check whether there are any open issues with our current
> development version, and please don't add any new functionality
> or packages until the release.

I just checked in a portability fix for gstreamer (and plugins) that
in retrospect might need some review:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/c13830284f24

It's a bit of a hack, without an upstream patch - but I can't see
another way. I managed to find an autoconf macro:

AG_GST_SET_PACKAGE_RELEASE_DATETIME_WITH_NANO

that introduces a (stray?) dot in ./configure, but I can't trace it
back any further. It seems to be a recent or gstreamer-specific
addition to autoconf. The only other thing that may work is running
configure with bash (untested) i.e. "cd '$(1)' && bash configure",
though that doesn't seem much cleaner.

This fix works on FreeBSD, OSX, and Ubuntu.

Cheers,

Tony