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+# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/gst-plugins-base.eclass,v 1.15 2009/11/16 00:38:24 leio Exp $
+
+# Author : foser <foser@gentoo.org>
+
+# gst-plugins eclass
+#
+# eclass to make external gst-plugins emergable on a per-plugin basis
+# to solve the problem with gst-plugins generating far too much unneeded deps
+#
+# 3rd party applications using gstreamer now should depend on a set of plugins as
+# defined in the source, in case of spider usage obtain recommended plugins to use from
+# Gentoo developers responsible for gstreamer <gnome@gentoo.org>, the application developer
+# or the gstreamer team.
+
+inherit eutils gst-plugins10 versionator
+
+
+###
+# variable declarations
+###
+
+MY_PN=gst-plugins-base
+MY_PV=$(get_version_component_range 1-2)
+MY_P=${MY_PN}-${PV}
+# All relevant configure options for gst-plugins
+# need a better way to extract these
+# gst-plugins-base 0.9
+my_gst_plugins_base="x xvideo xshm gst_v4l alsa cdparanoia gnome_vfs
+gio libvisual ogg oggtest theora vorbis vorbistest examples freetypetest pango"
+
+#SRC_URI="mirror://gnome/sources/gst-plugins/${PV_MAJ_MIN}/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
+SRC_URI="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+# added to remove circular deps
+# 6/2/2006 - zaheerm
+if [ "${PN}" != "${MY_PN}" ]; then
+RDEPEND=">=media-libs/gst-plugins-base-${PV}"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	~media-libs/gst-plugins-base-${PV}
+	>=sys-apps/sed-4
+	dev-util/pkgconfig"
+RESTRICT=test
+fi
+
+###
+# public functions
+###
+
+gst-plugins-base_src_configure() {
+
+	# disable any external plugin besides the plugin we want
+	local plugin gst_conf
+
+	einfo "Configuring to build ${GST_PLUGINS_BUILD} plugin(s) ..."
+
+	for plugin in ${GST_PLUGINS_BUILD}; do
+		my_gst_plugins_base=${my_gst_plugins_base/${plugin}/}
+	done
+	for plugin in ${my_gst_plugins_base}; do
+		gst_conf="${gst_conf} --disable-${plugin} "
+	done
+	for plugin in ${GST_PLUGINS_BUILD}; do
+		gst_conf="${gst_conf} --enable-${plugin} "
+	done
+
+	cd ${S}
+	econf ${@} --with-package-name="Gentoo GStreamer Ebuild" --with-package-origin="http://www.gentoo.org" ${gst_conf} || die "./configure failure"
+
+}
+
+###
+# public inheritable functions
+###
+
+gst-plugins-base_src_unpack() {
+
+#	local makefiles
+
+	unpack ${A}
+
+	# Link with the syswide installed gst-libs if needed
+	gst-plugins10_find_plugin_dir
+	sed -e "s:\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/gst/interfaces/libgstinterfaces.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-interfaces-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\${top_builddir}/gst-libs/gst/interfaces/libgstinterfaces.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-interfaces-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/gst/audio/libgstaudio.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-audio-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\${top_builddir}/gst-libs/gst/audio/libgstaudio.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-audio-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/gst/cdda/libgstcdda\.la.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-cdda-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\${top_builddir}/gst-libs/gst/cdda/libgstcdda\.la.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-cdda-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/gst/riff/libgstriff.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-riff-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\${top_builddir}/gst-libs/gst/riff/libgstriff.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-riff-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/gst/tag/libgsttag.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-tag-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\${top_builddir}/gst-libs/gst/tag/libgsttag.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-tag-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/gst/video/libgstvideo.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-video-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\${top_builddir}/gst-libs/gst/video/libgstvideo.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-video-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/gst/netbuffer/libgstnetbuffer.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-netbuffer-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\${top_builddir}/gst-libs/gst/netbuffer/libgstnetbuffer.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-netbuffer-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\$(top_builddir)/gst-libs/gst/rtp/libgstrtp.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-rtp-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-e "s:\${top_builddir}/gst-libs/gst/rtp/libgstrtp.*\.la:$(pkg-config --libs gstreamer-rtp-${MY_PV}):" \
+		-i Makefile.in
+#	cd ${S}
+
+	# Remove generation of any other Makefiles except the plugin's Makefile
+#	if [ -d "${S}/sys/${GST_PLUGINS_BUILD_DIR}" ]; then
+#		makefiles="Makefile sys/Makefile sys/${GST_PLUGINS_BUILD_DIR}/Makefile"
+#	elif [ -d "${S}/ext/${GST_PLUGINS_BUILD_DIR}" ]; then
+#		makefiles="Makefile ext/Makefile ext/${GST_PLUGINS_BUILD_DIR}/Makefile"
+#	fi
+#	sed -e "s:ac_config_files=.*:ac_config_files='${makefiles}':" \
+#		-i ${S}/configure
+
+}
+
+gst-plugins-base_src_compile() {
+
+	gst-plugins-base_src_configure ${@}
+
+	gst-plugins10_find_plugin_dir
+	emake || die "compile failure"
+
+}
+
+gst-plugins-base_src_install() {
+
+	gst-plugins10_find_plugin_dir
+	einstall || die
+
+	[[ -e README ]] && dodoc README
+}
+
+
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS src_unpack src_compile src_install