[mythtv-users] building android mythfrontend on Ubuntu 22.04 vs. 20.04?

[John]

On 18/08/2022 21:11, James Abernathy wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 3:57 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>     On 8/17/22 16:15, James Abernathy wrote:
>     > So I was testing out the updated Readme.md at
>     > https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/tree/master/android
>     > by building a KVM VM using Ubuntu 20.04 and the instructions
>     including
>     > the dependencies worked as documented. So I thought I'd see if this
>     > held true on Ubuntu 22.04. Well it did not.  After I built the VM
>     > using Ubuntu 22.04 I followed the Readme.md again and it failed
>     > building the libs and the error seemed to indicate it could not
>     find
>     > the command 'pkg-config'.
>     >
>     > I checked the 20.04 VM and it had the command pkg-config but 22.04
>     > didn't.  I did sudo apt install pkg-config on the 22.04 VM and then
>     > the libs were built.  However, when I tried to build the apk, I
>     got an
>     > error about not finding 'libmariadb.so'.
>     >
>     > This made no sense to me.  Anyone have any ideas? Obviously, I
>     could
>     > update the Readme.md to say Ubuntu 20.04 only, but that would
>     seem odd.
>     >
>     > Jim A
>     >
>     >
>     > _______________________________________________
>
>     I have built on 22.04 ever since I upgraded to 22.04 a couple of
>     months
>     ago. I have not had any problems, although I did build the libs on
>     20.04
>     and continued using the same ones on 22.04. Are you building
>     fixes/32 or
>     master?
>
>     Peter
>
>
> I think there must be something different about having 20.04 working 
> and then upgrading in place to 22.04.  I may do an experiment if I 
> have time.  I'm doing fixes/32 only when testing 22.04.
>
> After I had 20.04 production arm and arm64 apks for fixes/32, I did 
> try master just to see since I have a master FE/BE combo testing 
> system working fine on Master, but while libs built, apks failed hard 
> and early.  I didn't even try to figure out what was missing.
>
> Both the 20.04 and 22.04 android builder systems were just VMs so they 
> were fresh systems with just what it took to run the android builds.  
> My new Readme.md was strictly 20.04, fresh VM  and it's repeatable.  
> Since I can build a 20.04 VM as easily as 22.04, I really don't care, 
> but someone will try 22.04 naturally and it will fail. If I could 
> identify the problem that would be good to note the changes, but 
> otherwise I may want a 20.04 only warning in the readme.
>
> Jim A
>
>
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Just to confirm the above from Jim. On Ubuntu 22.04 the build for the 
libraries on Myth 32 completes without errors but mariadb has not been 
compiled.
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