[mythtv-users] OS X & MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

[Matt Hannan]

Jeremy McDermond wrote:
> If anyone is interested, I have compiled a version of SVN 8602 for  
> Mac and packaged it up.  It was tested on a G5 tower with a  
> completely fresh load of OSX without any development environment  
> against an SVN 8602 backend on Linux.  Let me know if you have any  
> troubles, although the school term has started and my time to help  
> you out may be limited.
>
> It's available at:
>
> http://www.xenotropic.com/index.php? 
> option=com_remository&Itemid=33&func=fileinfo&filecatid=27&parent=catego 
> ry
>
>
> I had to change line 983 of osx-packager.pl to read:
>
>       next if ($file =~ m,/Versions/A/\Q$dep\E,);
>
> where it reads
>
>       next if ($file =~ m,/Versions/A/$dep,);
>
> in the original out of SVN.  You need to escape the $dep so that it  
> doesn't interpret characters in the variable as a part of the regular  
> expression.  Namely there's a C++ library in there, so libstdc++ (or  
> whatever it is) is a screwy regexp that won't compile.  I think this  
> is the right fix, but I haven't tested it extensively.  It just could  
> screw up the entire regexp and it works because it's evaluating $dep  
> as a literal, but I haven't had much time to look at it.  If some  
> other perl guru has a chance to look at it, that'd be cool.
>
>   
Hey, buddy. That installed like butter!