[mythtv-users] Unsuccessful compile

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 16 October 2003 06:37 pm, Lee Schlesinger wrote:
> Friends, I'm stumped. I've read the documentation and I've searched both 
> the mythtv site and Google without finding an answer. I hope you can help.
> 
> I'm trying to install mythtv on a SuSE 9.0 box. I believe I've installed 
> all the prerequisite software. MySQL is running. Per the documentation I 
> run ./configure, qmake mythtv.pro, then make. Make errors out on 
> libavcodec. A posting here in June suggested removing -fPIC from the 
> Makefile in the libavcodec directory. When I do that, libavcodec goes fine, 
> but I get a slew of other errors from libmyth.
> 
> Any suggestions for what I might try to put things right? Thanks for your 
help.
> 
> Lee Schlesinger


Well, you didn't say what the 'slew of other errors' was, but see here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=83723

SuSE's Qt installation is broken; if that's your problem, try another distro 
or download and compile Qt from source.

-JAC