[mythtv] OSX backend: now what?

[Keith C]

On Dec 14, 2005, at 11:38 AM, David Abrahams wrote:

> David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> writes:
>>
>>> My next shot-in-the-dark guess is to install ccache, but that caused
>>> such a time suck the last time I did it that I'm reticent.
>>> Furthermore, distcc only worked on the other machine when ccache
>>> /wasn't/ installed.  Any clues?
>>
>> Against my better judgement, I installed ccache (but not
>> ccache-default, this time).  It worked!  whew.  I hope when this is
>> all over we can capture the knowledge I've gained in some document
>> (or, better yet, the script).
>
> So I was expecting some build errors when the backend failed to
> compile against the firewire support library, but no such luck (?)
> Perhaps the configure script detected lack of firewire support and
> just didn't include that component?
>

Not sure if its related, but about a month ago my normal configure  
which included --enable-firewire stopped enabling firewire.  There  
has definitely been some library check added that overrides the -- 
enable-firewire option.

Keith C