[mythtv] FYI: Building SVN difficult - dependancies galore.!

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 16:17 +1000, Buzz wrote:

> This isn't the problem. :-)   Dependanceis are defficult, but resolvable.
> (in my case resolved)    Building a RPM .spec file that automates chapters
> 4,5 and 13 of the http://www.mythtv.org/docs/ and builds a RPM automagically
> isn't really a problem either (it's almost written - will be posted soon)...
Thanks :) Do you mind if I stick it in contrib, under [L]GPL?

> What is a problem is when the build process is aparently broken:
> CURRENT SVN BUILD PROBLEM(1): 
> Following a  'configure --prefix=/usr'
> Doing a 'make install' of SVN's mythtv/libs/libmyth/ isn't installing the
> header files correctly, it's installing to 'usr/include/mythtv/' not
> '/usr/include/mythtv/' as it should . (NOTE THE MISSING LEADING SLASH)
I don't recall exactly what is needed, but I think you need something like:
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  qmake PREFIX=/usr
It's the qmake part that people forget or just don't know about.
I'm not even sure if this is correct, there is talk about this in the
archives a while back.

It's a known problem, but since the only people that need to change the
prefix are people making distribution packages there hasn't been much
incentive to fix it. I personally thought one of the people making
packages would fix it, but it hasn't happened yet.

> CURRENT SVN BUILD PROBLEM(2)
> As a result of the above:  'mythbrowser' not building because it requires
> libmyth headers to be installed in /usr/include/mythtv/* and can't find
> them.
... solve #1 and it should solve #2 ...

-- Daniel