[mythtv] Can't 'make' XMLTV

[Alex Davidson]

Perfect - that fixed it.
Thanks

----- Original Message ----- 

> did you make sure to remove the version of libexpat that shipped with 
> RH8? Installing from source puts things in /usr/local/lib/ but stuff 
> shipped from Red Hat is in /usr/lib. Try removing anything to do with 
> libexpat from /usr/lib, install the fresh version of libexpat, again, 
> and as root do /sbin/ldconfig. You might need to do /sbin/ldconfig a 
> couple of times due to some Red Hat wierdness.
> 
> 
> good luck
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 01:37 PM, Alex Davidson wrote:
> 
> > I am installing for the very first time (Red Hat 8.0) and got as far 
> > as:
> > http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.3
> >
> > install XML::Twig
> > but that step ended with the following message:
> > Running make install
> >     make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
> >
> > Looking back through the screen echoes everything goes fine until:
> > t/test_entities....This error is probably due to an incompatibility 
> > between
> > XML::Twig and the version of libexpat that you are using
> >
> > One thing I did slightly differently from the instructions was to get a
> > newer build of libexpat - 1.95.6 instead of the suggested 1.95.5 so I 
> > tried:
> > make uninstall
> > in the libexpat directory then downloaded 1.95.5 and went back a few 
> > steps
> > to install the 'correct' version but it made no difference.
> > I then deleted the xmltv directory and extracted it again and ran:
> > perl -MCPAN -e shell
> > and
> > install XML::Twig
> > but it did the same thing.
> >
> > Any ideas how I can overcome this?  When I first ran XMLTV it prompted 
> > me
> > for various things (but not the second time) and I mis-typed the region
> > prompt and had to enter North America as a default and wonder if this 
> > is
> > causing the error.
> >
> > I am not familiar with Linux but am a Computer-type by trade (Windows) 
> > so if
> > I need to be running commands I'll need help on the specifics.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> > Alex