Where should I report a gst build issue?

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gst build fails to build because libgstopencv.so fails to build with opencv installed into non standard location but set from pkg-config

I’m facing a build issue with monorepo on an aarch64 platform (AGX Orin aarch64 running Ubuntu-22.04, L4T R36.3) using gstreamer 1.24.6, 1.24.7 or master pre-1.25.0 with apt purged opencv for having various versions installed into /usr/local/opencv-4.x.y and set by pkg-config and env, whereby it fails to build subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/ext/opencv/libgstopencv.so because the meson.build file adds: -lopencv_tracking.
Simple workarounds are :

  • adding -L /usr/local/opencv-4.x.y/lib to meson.build flags.
  • Just adding opencv lib path to LIBARY_PATH:
    export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/opencv-4.x.y/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
  • or just remove the opencv_tracking reference from meson.build as it is provided among other opencv libs and path from pkg-config.

Not sure what case this opencv_tracking reference is expected to help…

I have tried to report this issue to various gstreamer/gitlab servers to no avail…
Sorry to ask, but what would be the right address for reporting that build issue ?

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As you’ve already debugged it, I’d suggest you submit a merge request on our GitLab. I’m guessing your 3rd option is the right one as we seem to always rely on pkg-config to find OpenCV.

Thank you!

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For anyone going into this, probably reading :
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/index.html?gi-language=c#contributing-to-gstreamer
may save some time.