[mythtv-users] another mythplugins make problem -- FIXED: uglyhack

[Robin Gilks]

>> I had the exact same problem, and I was able to compile and install by
>> first copying mythconfig.make to subfolders like mythdvd/mythdvd,
>> mythdvd/mtd, mythdvd/i18n, mythmusic/mythmusic, etc.
>>
>> I also had my source in a home directory of a user.  I wonder if the
>> makefiles don't like something about our source locations?
>>
>> But hey, you know that old saying "If it's ugly, but it works, then at
>> least my DVDs will play"
>>
>>
>> --- Pete Clarke <pete at devilincarnate.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> :-)
>
> It must be something to do with where we put the source, as it must have
> worked for someone!
>
> Compiled fine for me too, after the hack.
>
> Just wish I could get my kde dev libs installed without uninstalling half
> my system :(...looks like mythbrowser will have to wait until I screw
> something  up badly enough for a complete system rebuild! lol
>
> Marius
>
>>
>>> >
>>> >> ...
>>> >>>>>>>> Just tried to compile mythplugins (todays svn)
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>> get a couple of lines through make, then:
>>> >>>>>>>>  Entering directory
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> `/home/mythtv/tmp/mythtv.svn.050929/mythplugins/mythdvd/mythdvd'
>>> >>>>>>>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `mythconfig.mak', needed
>>> by
>>> >>>>>>>> `Makefile'.  Stop.
>>> >>>>>>>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> `/home/mythtv/tmp/mythtv.svn.050929/mythplugins/mythdvd/mythdvd'
>>> >>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [sub-mythdvd] Error 2
>>> >>>>>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>>> >>>>>>>> `/home/mythtv/tmp/mythtv.svn.050929/mythplugins/mythdvd'
>>> >>>>>>>> make: *** [sub-mythdvd] Error 2
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I get the same error - have done since about mid September...
>>> >>>>> SVN from 15th built fine, since then I get the above error
>>> too...
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> OK, as nobody said: "DON'T!"
>>> >>
>>> >> I simply copied the mythconfig.bak link into all the program
>>> subdirs
>>> >> containing a .pro file.
>>> >>
>>> >> Everything compiled fine.
>>> >>
>>> >> Certainly not the most elegant way of fixing it, but a lot easier
>>> than
>>> >> tinkering with the config script.
>>> >>
>>> >> Hope this at least points to what's wrong.
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Sound to me like you didn't run the configure script. Thats what it
>>> does -
>>> > it creates the config.pro files...
>>>
>>> It's not the .pro files that are missing from the dirs, it's the
>>> mythconfig.mak files.
>>>
>>>

I think you may be asking yourself the wrong question. Its not so much why
doesn't the mythconfig.mak file get copied to the directories but why
don't you have a symlink at the top level of the plugins directory to
where mythconfig.mak lives on your system.

Where is lives depends on how you installed the main mythtv app - in my
case its in /usr/local/include/mythtv/mythconfig.mak and thats certainly
the case having built the main app from SVN.

As far as I can see, qmake uses the .pro files to create the Makefiles in
each directory and grep'ing them gives me (eg. in mythdvd):

# grep mythconfig.mak Makefile
DIST       = /usr/local/include/mythtv/mythconfig.mak \
Makefile: mythdvd.pro  /usr/qt/3/mkspecs/linux-g++/qmake.conf
/usr/local/include/mythtv/mythconfig.mak \

YMMV


-- 
Robin Gilks