[mythtv-users] OT: Gotcha for Mandriva users

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Oct 8 16:12:39 UTC 2009


Chuck Filson wrote:
> On Thursday 08 October 2009 08:04:14 Mike Perkins wrote:
>> This may also affect users of other OSs, YMMV, etc.
>>
>> I decided to pull a copy of trunk onto a development machine to get
>> familiar with 0.22 prior to release, in order to plan my upgrade, which
>> will probably also involve OS upgrades.
>>
>> After eventually finding all the dependencies (what fun...not) I did
>> ./configure and looked at the result. It occurred to me that as my
>> "development" box has very little poke I could use the resources of my big
>> file (and LTSP) server by installing distcc and spreading the compilation
>> across the two machines.
>>
> 
> I also recently tried trunk on a fresh install of Mandriva 2009.1 with a basic 
> kde4 install.
> 
> The only dependencies that required attention were 3 development libraries ( 
> faad, lame, forgot the third ) all of which were in the standard 
> repositories.
> 
...a ton of Perl modules. Fortunately, the first run of ./configure flags them 
up. Finding them was another matter, although only of time.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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