[mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 03:28, Michael Stevens wrote:
> I had this exact problem. The issue was GCC 4.0. I originally compiled
> mythtv with GCC 3.3, and recently had to recompile it. Unbeknownst to me,
> Debian had upgraded the default GCC to 4.0. Once I changed the symlinks
> back to 3.3, it compiled fine again.
>
> I'm not running x64 though, but I suspect that it might be your problem
> anyway.
>
> On 10/6/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Howdy all, entering the realm of MythTV. I've got a HD-3000 card and once
> > I
> > get my new video card am hoping to get up and running. I have an AMD64
> > processor and have been running Kanotix64 and with Stable/Testing
> > sources. I'm attempting to compile MythTV(since theres no debs for
> > Debian64) and am getting the following error and am hoping for some help
> > to figure out whats
> > wrong:
> >
> > make[2]: Entering directory
> > `/DataDrive/Files/Tarballs/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec'
> > gcc -c -pipe -march=k8 -w -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -fomit-frame-pointer
> > -D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC -DMMX -DUSING_IVTV -DUSING_DVB -DUSING_XRANDR
> > -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\"
> > -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT
> > -I/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I.. -I../..
> > -I/usr/share/qt3/include -o
> > utils.o utils.c
> > In file included from avcodec.h:14,
> > from utils.c:27:
> > common.h:61: error: array type has incomplete element type
> > common.h:65: error: array type has incomplete element type
> > make[2]: *** [utils.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/DataDrive/Files/Tarballs/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec'
> > make[1]: *** [sub-libavcodec] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/DataDrive/Files/Tarballs/mythtv-0.18.1/libs'
> > make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Steve


Thanks for the response, but I got it compiled soon after i emailed that after 
some help from others.
as a side note:
export CC="gcc-3.3" 
will have 'make' use gcc-3.3 instead of 4, so you don't have to change the 
symlinks.

Steve