[mythtv-users] TheSniderPad.com Mac build + network LIRC problems

David Snider dsnider at thesniderpad.com
Tue Apr 1 03:18:43 UTC 2008


Sam Jacobs wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:56 PM, David Snider <dsnider at thesniderpad.com> wrote:
>   
>>  4 GB should be plenty, right now my build box has 23 GB.   So, I can't
>>  "honestly" say that 4 GB is enough.  My build directory is at about 691
>>  MB right now.   You *should* be ok.   I'll try and figure out what's
>>  going on with the LIRC stuff.
>>     
>
> YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!!! *Finally* got osx-packager to work!!
>
> smbx:OSX samueljacobs$ MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/MythFrontend --version
> Please include all output in bug reports.
> MythTV Version   : exported
> MythTV Branch    : tags/release-0-21
> Library API      : 0.21.20080304-1
> Network Protocol : 40
> Options compiled in:
>  release darwin_da using_corevideo using_backend using_dbox2
> using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_iptv ***using_lirc*** using_dvdv
> using_appleremote using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
> using_darwin_da using_dvdv using_ffmpeg_threads using_live
>
> Short short version: Letting the script grab the source from svn
> *won't* work, not even using the release-0-21 tag - the tag doesn't
> seem to correspond with the 0.21 source tarball, there's some issue
> with Qt4 and qmake (perhaps the release was tagged too late, as afaik
> 0.21 shouldn't be using Qt4, or even trying to, and osx-packager as
> included in the tarball downloads 3.3.8). I had to place the contents
> of the tarball into .osx-packager/src/myth-svn/mythtv (which for me is
> actually a mounted case-sensitive disk image) then run the script with
> -nohead.
>
> For LIRC, I placed /opt/local/lib/liblirc_client* into
> .osx-packager/build/lib and /opt/local/include/lirc into
> .osx-packager/build/include and the build/packaging process took care
> of the rest.
>
> Aaaaaand... IT WORKS!! The frontend running on my MacBook responds to
> my remote, the signals for which are being received by the receiver on
> my backend box!!! Sorry for the enthusiasm, but it took me the best
> part of a day of forehead scratching to decide that the code being
> grabbed from SVN was somehow broken.
>
> I haven't actually tested video playback yet, so if you will excuse
> me, I'm going to try and watch some TV! :-D
>
> Thanks!
> Sam
>
>   
Congratulations!!!  I'll try to include your steps into future builds to 
get the LIRC bundled correctly...


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