[mythtv] Notes on qmake.conf / path issue

Carl Larson mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Mon Jan 6 07:06:10 EST 2003


All compiled!  Very excited about the good
documentation so I wanted to maybe give some more
feedback, hope it's not too long.  

I had to manually set the path for suse 8.1.  ie, i
typed export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 right before typing
make.  It's really weird but there doesn't seem to be
any default shell profile for root (does this make
sense?).  Maybe the suse people want to move towards
being more restrictive on the use of root (?), but the
/etc/profile.d/mythtv.sh didn't work (followed
directions   correctly), and i also tried making a
.profile file in my /root directory. Only exporting
from the command line worked.  Anyway, I wanted to say
that even after managing to get "set" to display the
correct path's, I still got the qmake.conf needed
error on "make".  It only worked after i typed "export
QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3" from the command line.

Is this a bad way to compile mythtv (i mean it worked
didn't it)?  

Does anyone know how to set path variables properly
for root in suse 8.1?

If it is not bad to compile mythtv this way, then you
may want to include it in the documentation.  There
seem to be alot of posts about it in the forum!



run down of what i did:
// somehow got set to display correct variables for
QTDIR and PATH
# set                         //reflects correct paths
# tar -xjf mythtv-0.5.4.tgz
# cd mythtv*
# ./configure
# make
qmake.conf not found error
# export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
# make
and everything worked!

I seems bizarre but this is how it happened.

Thanks,
Carl

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