[mythtv] Using a staging file system when building myth

[Colin Guthrie]

Jan Örnstedt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to package mythtv but have som problems with installing it
> into a temporary staging area. If I change the PREFIX things will not
> work. Seems like mythtv doesn't respect DESTDIR...

A further point to note:

Make sure your staging area is not in /usr/local.

Nothing to do with Myth specifically, but qmake does odd things when 
inside /usr/local  It basically makes loads of paths relative rather 
than absolute which can really mess things up.

I spent ages playing with this until I realised it wasn't my fault!!

If you're building in a chroot, this shouldn't matter ('cause why use 
/usr/local in a chroot??!), if not, and you need the space on 
/usr/local, then you could bind mount your real build area to some path 
other than /usr/local

e.g. mount -t none /usr/local/myth /myth -o bind

Hope this helps avoid a headache.

Col.


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