[mythtv-users] Latest svn builds segfaulting

[Dom H]

Deleting the libraries from /usr/local/lib and re-installing worked, thanks.

On 30/03/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/30/2007 05:50 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > Willy Boyd wrote:
> >
> >> Since others will be reading this, I would just like to personally
> >> recommend *against* doing just that.  There are good reasons for
> >> "standards" like building into /usr/local, especially when mixing
> >> user-compiled code with pre-built packages.  Unless you're very
> >> careful (as I'm sure you are), you stand a greater chance of messing
> >> up your environment when you start installing custom code over
> >> packaged binaries which normally like in /usr.  Sure, a common mistake
> >> is to have the old libs hanging around in /usr, but that's why you
> >> remove the older myth packages as well and keep things separate.  Once
> >> you start mixing things in the same bowl you get even more unexpected
> >> results.  /usr is for system packages, /usr/local is for user-compiled
> >> binaries and libs.
> >>
> > And further to the above, if you ensure that /usr/local is listed before
> >   /usr in your PATH and /usr/local/lib before /usr/lib in ld.so.conf,
> > the two versions can co-exist peacefully, to the extent that you can try
> > the SVN version without touching your present installation. If the SVN
> > crashes, you need only delete /all usr/locla/bin/myth* and
> > /usr/local/lib/libmyth* files to revert.
>
> And then delete your database...  And don't forget that all machines on
> your network need to run the same revision of
> mythbackend/mythfrontend/mythplugins...
>
> Mike
>
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