[mythtv-users] compile MythTV and install only the frontend

[revans]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:32:15 -0500
Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 
> > I have built only the frontend once but that was using 
> > https://github.com/MythTV/packaging.git
> > not the source itself.
> 
> Could it be that it was built a long time ago?
> 
> --disable-backend was removed in 2006
> 
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/8892c23e799a09980735f1ecaf663a22f26b2a66
> 

It would have been more like two or three years ago.  I should not have
said I build only the frontend, I'm sure both the frontend and backend
were compiled but since it was making .deb packages, I was able to only
install the frontend.