From a90f908bbfffffab3e9ae68d78f37c1a0bf400bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 18:07:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix spurious libxml warning

Original commit message from CVS:
fix spurious libxml warning
---
 gst/gstplugin.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gst/gstplugin.c b/gst/gstplugin.c
index 52f311986a..be9b08e25f 100644
--- a/gst/gstplugin.c
+++ b/gst/gstplugin.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ void
 _gst_plugin_initialize (void)
 {
   GList *gst_plugin_default_paths = NULL;
+  struct stat stat_buf;
 #ifndef GST_DISABLE_REGISTRY
   xmlDocPtr doc = NULL;
   xmlNodePtr root;
@@ -89,8 +90,10 @@ _gst_plugin_initialize (void)
 #endif /* PLUGINS_USE_BUILDDIR */
 
 #ifndef GST_DISABLE_REGISTRY
-  doc = xmlParseFile (GST_CONFIG_DIR"/reg.xml");
-  g_assert (doc != NULL);
+  if (stat (GST_CONFIG_DIR"/reg.xml", &stat_buf) == 0)
+    doc = xmlParseFile (GST_CONFIG_DIR"/reg.xml");
+  else
+    doc = NULL;
 
   if (!doc || 
       !doc->xmlRootNode ||