Original commit message from CVS:
Massive patch to make 'make check' work properly. Many compilation
fixes -- everything should compile now. Some tests pass, some
fail; the expected sucess/failure is coded in the Makefile.am's.
gst-register is properly run for both 'make check' and 'make distcheck'.
Much of the common infrastructure is coded in testsuite/Rules.
Original commit message from CVS:
* added a get_perms_func to gstxmlregistry that will set _WRITABLE and _READABLE
as appropriate
* added an object property for location so that we can do some cleanup and initialization
