[mythtv] Newbie question: how to install on remote frontend?

[Chris Dennis]

Robert Johnston wrote:
> On 27/12/2009 5:07 AM, Chris Dennis wrote:
>> Hello folks
>>
>> I'm new to the SVN version of mythtv, and can't find an answer to this
>> question.
>>
>> I've got a mythtv 0.22 backend working well. The frontend runs on a VIA
>> C3-based motherboard, and has various issues, so I'm trying to get the
>> latest SVN version running on it so that I can work on some improvements.
>>
>> On the backend, I've checked out the SVN source and compiled it
>> successfully. (The frontend isn't powerful enough to do its own
>> compiling). If I copy the compiled mythfrontend executable to the
>> frontend PC and try to run it, it complains about having the wrong
>> versions of myth libraries.
>>
>> So, the question is: How do I install the new mythfrontend on the
>> frontend machine? Or to put it another way: Which files do I need to
>> copy from the SVN directories to the frontend?
> 
> The easiest suggestion I have here is to copy the whole directory that 
> you compiled from on the backend to the frontend (Or temporarily share 
> it over NFS and mount it somewhere), then execute "make install" as root 
> on the frontend.

Does that mean that I have to install everything -- frontend, backend, 
libraries, etc., on my frontend PC?
> 
> However, and this is a big caveat, this requires both the frontend and 
> backend to be running the same version of all the core libraries, 
> essentially to be running the same version of linux. If anything 
> required by Myth is different in any way between the backend and the 
> frontend, this method just plain won't work.
> 
> You might also want to look into a tool called "DistCC". It's supported 
> by the Myth compile process, and it allows machines to share the 
> compilation. It works great, and I used it on my XBox to compile Myth 
> from source, doing the actual compilation work on my backend and my 
> desktop machine. Something to look into.

Yes, I'll look into that too.

I'll try things out on a VM and report back.

cheers

Chris


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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis at btinternet.com
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK