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

[Raymond Wagner]

On Dec 18, 2013, at 8:14, "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> One gotcha: the backend must be installed *and running* before you make and install the plugins. Which means you should probably debug your systemd startup script, before building the plugins: you will have to at some point.

It must be installed, but it does not need to be running.  It merely needs access to the headers and libraries to build against.  It's no different than some distros needing "-dev" packages for libraries if you wish to build against them.