[mythtv] FYI: Building SVN difficult - dependancies galore.!

[Buzz]

I, for one, was actually inspired by Isaac's big 'this breaks livetv' commit
to actually try and start using SVN/head and see if there were
simple/outstanding issues that I could tackle, and give-back.  

I found building SVN of mythtv+plugins+themes, and organising all the the
dependancies to be quite a challenge, as they don't seem to be documented
anywhere except in ./configure breaking/complaining when it doesn't find
certain files/libraries/etc.    

Errors like "MythMusic requires libid3tag", when I actually and obviously
had a libid3tag RPM installed are the most confusing. (it appears I did not
have the relevant headers that are in with libid3tag-devel not libid3tag).
This has happened 1/2 dozen times so far, and I still don't have SVN
compiling fully.    
Requiring libraw1394?? Well, actually it seems to require 1.2.x or higher,
not just any old libraw1394.    (or maybe it was libavn1394, or was it
librom1394, I forget now. - you get my point!)

That said, I've just spent two evenings trying to orgainise a simpler way to
build an RPM of SVN, so that getting SVN installed is easier for "testers"
(non-coding types interested in helping with SVN where possible).  When I've
got it going (end of tonite maybe?), this could make building and installing
nightlies of SVN more of a no-brainer.

CURRENT SVN BUILD PROBLEM(1): 
'make install' of SVN's mythtv/libs/libmyth/ isn't installing the header
files correctly, it's installing to 'usr/include/mythtv/' not
'/usr/include/mythtv/' as it should (I did 'configure --prefix=/usr').
CURRENT SVN BUILD PROBLEM(2)
As a result of the above:  'mythbrowser' not building because it requires
libmyth headers to be installed in /usr/include/mythtv/* and can't find
them.


Suggestions anyone?    Currently, I've just gone and 'cp -r'-ed the folder
to the right place and run ldconfig afterwards, but is that ok? 


Buzz.


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
On Behalf Of Glen Dragon
Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 1:46 PM
To: mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv] Current stability of svn, excluding live tv?

I?m curious to know the relative stability of the head.  I know live-tv is
broken, I don?t particularly care, as it didn?t work all that well for me
before. I was always in the habit of recording, then watching pseudo-live
anyways.


Yes, I do read the dev & commits list, and from that perspective everything
seems to be fine.

Since everything I?m running now is especially stable (from 2 weeks ago),
and the proto was bumped, I?m just looking for a go / no-go before I
re-compile all my boxes.



Thanks


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