[mythtv-users] Build from source on Archlinux -Master

[James Abernathy]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 5:29 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 4:44 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Yes, the Archlinux was installed fresh this morning just to experiment
>> with mythtv on Arch. I'm trying to create a PKGBUILD for mythtv that tracks
>> master instead of the one that just tracks v31. It's something to keep me
>> busy until the drinking lamp is lit.
>>
>> The build after the python-pip install worked. Now I'm down to fixing the
>> library links. I'm getting the usually:
>> error while loading shared libraries: libmythtv-32.so.32: cannot open
>> shared object file
>> I think I know how to fix that for the Building from source wiki.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Jim A
>>
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> This is strange.  I had mythtv v31 working without any issues. Now I have
> all the programs updated to Pre32 master but mythbackend will not connect
> (133).
>
> With the backend stopped I did mythtv-setup and it wanted to upgrade the
> schema of the database and I didl. Since then 133 failures on the backend.
> I went to the usual place to look for /etc/mysql... and that directory
> isn't there.  I can get into mariadb with mysql -u root -p and look at the
> mythconverg tables, etc, but I'm really confused. If you don't know
> something to look for, I'm going to blow it all away and start over after
> I've had a few whiskey's
>
> Jim A
>

This is solved. I couldn't fix it so I started over fresh. The key is to
install pip first with 'pacman -S python-pip. Everything fell in line after
that.  I just have to remember to ./configure --prefix=/usr

Thanks,

Jim A
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