[mythtv] error building with qt5 on mac os x

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Wed Mar 11 15:14:12 UTC 2015


On 11/03/15 13:03, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> At 9:59 AM -0400 3/10/15, brad dreisbach wrote:
>> i am not a [real] programmer so i wasnt able to figure out what the issue
>> was. looking at mythdirs.cpp:93 it seems there is a mac os x hack that
>> may no longer be valid.
> 
> Brad, thanks for having a go at this.  It is on my todo list to start
> testing master on OSX with QT5.  But I'm not going to get at it for some
> weeks.
> 
> I believe you are right--the hack [1] isn't necessary anymore.
> 
> [1]
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/34b9f3b64c6d6ef1518658ce6d33eb9a691fad30
> 
> 
> Since OS X 10.6 (I believe), OS X does not permit programs to daemon(). 
> The appropriate way to run mythbackend is via launchd.
> 
> I think the above commit should be reverted.
> 

Removed in
http://code.mythtv.org/cgit/mythtv/commit/?id=a17736607c25df5aed13545c54f70c54830ca6b5

Regards
Stuart Auchterlonie



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