[mythtv-users] Moving from package to compile from source

[John Pilkington]

On 18/12/13 11:53, David Watkins wrote:
>
>     And it all seems too simple to be true.
>
>     Does anyone have any advice for me in this situation.
>
> I'm guessing you prbably know this already but, as a begginer to
> compiling, I was caught out by the fact that the make install put
> the executables (and possible the libraries) in a different place to the
> package manager.
> I had to edit my start scripts and I seem to recall modifying library
> paths and running ldconfig to get things going.
>

I'm still far from confident with this, but I built my SL6 system by 
unpacking the rpmfusion SRPM and replacing the release tarball and 
update patch by the tarball from git.   I've left other source 
components unchanged. That way I hope to retain comparability with what 
rpmfusion might build if its policies allowed.

When I last downloaded the tarball it came rather slowly and I suspect 
that a git pull would be preferable; I'll put that on the todo list.

John P