[mythtv-users] From panicked to puzzled

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 09/07/15 02:23, Rick wrote:
> On 07/07/2015 07:14 PM, Rick wrote:
>> On 07/07/2015 02:38 AM, David Watkins wrote:
>>>
>>>     I apologize for my lack of clarity.  I was fairly burned out when I
>>>     wrote the original post.  I've been building using mythtv source for
>>>     about 8 years or so.  This is the build process I follow:
>>>
>>>     1) git update - For main mythtv source
>>>     2) run Configure (for me that means this command line:  ./configure
>>>     --prefix=/usr/local/mythtv.0.27 --disable-mythlogserver --enable-vdpau
>>>     --with-bindings=perl
>>>     3) make
>>>     4) make install (this is what I mean by install the binaries)
>>>     5) ldconfig as root (to update the cache of shared libraries)
>>>
>>>     6) git update - for plugins
>>>     7) run configure : ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mythtv.0.27
>>>     --disable-mythgame --enable-mythbrowser --enable-mythzoneminder
>>>     --enable-mythnetvision --enable-m
>>>     ythnews --disable-mythweather
>>>     8) make
>>>     9) make install
>>>     10) ldconfig as root
>>>
>>>
>>> ... shouldn't you do step (9) as root also? 
>>
>>>
>> The target directory for the install is writable by the id doing the
>> install so root isn't needed.
>>
> I found the problem.  Why it's a problem is not clear to me but the
> cause of the problem was using QT5 instead of QT4.  Once I removed the
> QT5 libraries and compiled with QT4, everything worked again.  I
> wouldn't have noticed it without using the Mageia 5 mythbackend package.
>  For what it's worth, that Mageia 5 backend package is from Oct 2014 so
> that is considerably older than what I was running.
> 

Whilst 0.27 may on the surface appear to work with Qt5 there are things
that don't really work, which is why 0.27 always prefers Qt4.

It's only with 0.28 that we will move to Qt5

Regards
Stuart