[mythtv] rpm build failure with current master

John Pilkington johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 12:03:57 UTC 2020


On 12/10/2020 10:18, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 01/10/2020 12:31, Mark Kendall wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 12:22, John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm running 32Pre1159.el7 and 32Pre1158.fc31.  In both of these the
>>> 'Edit bar'  (as in https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13534 ) has a
>>> new(ish) pulsation, which I thought I might report.
>>>
>>> I hoped to build at the current commit, but an attempt to build
>>> 32Pre1179.el7 failed.
>>
>> John
>>
>> We are aware - just not so sure how to fix it sensibly yet. (el7 has a
>> very old video4linux header - and it's not just a case of adding some
>> defines).
>>
>> Regards
>> Mark
> 
> Shortly after this I noticed that Gary had updated his build script. Its 
> configuration for el7 now uses
> 
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/kernel/x86_64/Packages/
> 
> with 5.4.xx kernels and related packages.
> 
> It worked for me, building under Fedora 31 and running under SL7.8 with 
> kernel 4.4.238-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> 
> MythTV Version : v32-Pre-351435b44af
> 
> John P

Update:  That worked - until last week; I'm currently running 
v32-Pre-cf5b9e50831 under the current elrepo-lt el7 kernel.  But the 
build now fails,as before, with V4L2 problems, and the altarch kernel 
site above shows no packages.  Maybe I can get mock to use elrepo...


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