[mythtv-users] Moving from package to compile from source

[R. G. Newbury]

On 12/18/2013 09:08 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
> Back around .16 or so, when I was building from source because no one was
> packaging, my approach was to create a script in the toplevel directory
> called "build" and put all my commands into it, so I always knew how the
> current build was done and could recreate it if necessary, a tactic I
> recommend for any source build of anything.


Further to this, there are a couple of pages on the wiki about 'building 
from source' for various distro's. The pages for Fedora are now really 
old. I never updated the one I did for Fedora 12, but you should take a 
look at them, There are complete scripts for grabbing dependencies and 
for making and make installing the system.

The Fedora versions were written on the basis that the build was a bare 
metal install. Remember that there is no automatic dependency checking 
(or grabbing!).. Not such a problem if you are deleting an existing 
'apt-get' install. It's the '-devel' files which are a killer to get 
figured out.

One gotcha: the backend must be installed *and running* before you make 
and install the plugins. Which means you should probably debug your 
systemd startup script, before building the plugins: you will have to at 
some point.

Using the scripts makes it so much easier: start it up, go get coffee 
etc. shovel snow, whatever.

And youy can *exactly* specify the switches you wnat, and specify where 
the exexcutables get installed.

Geoff

Who is just about to update the OS to Fedora 20, and may get around to 
writing an update for the wiki...

G.


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