[mythtv-users] Mythtv frontend on PPC

[OM Ugarcina]

Hello JYA,

Got the xcode in 3.14, downloaded the perl scripts and trying it out now .
The git version is now 1.8.4 , but i downloaded the older 1.7.3.4 and put
that in src manually. However my build is failing with this error :

192-168-1-241:mythtv user$ ./osx-packager-qtsdk.pl -verbose -qtsrc 4.8.5
-gcc
[osx-pkg] Building using master profile
[osx-pkg] Target architectures: ppc7400
[osx-pkg] DEVROOT = /Developer
[osx-pkg] SDKVER = 10.4
[osx-pkg] SDKROOT = /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
[osx-pkg] CCBIN = /Developer/usr/bin/gcc
[osx-pkg] CXXBIN = /Developer/usr/bin/g++
[osx-pkg] CFLAGS = -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
-D_USING_105SDK=1 -mmacosx-version-min=10.5
-I/Users/user/Downloads/mythtv/.osx-packager/build/include
-I/Users/user/Downloads/mythtv/.osx-packager/build/mysql -arch ppc7400
[osx-pkg] LDFLAGS = -Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
-mmacosx-version-min=10.5
-L/Users/user/Downloads/mythtv/.osx-packager/build/lib
-F/Users/user/Downloads/mythtv/.osx-packager/build/lib -arch ppc7400
[osx-pkg] /usr/bin/hostinfo | grep 'processors$'
[osx-pkg] Including components: mythtv mythplugins packaging
[osx-pkg] Using previously downloaded git
[osx-pkg] Using previously unpacked git
[osx-pkg] Configuring git
[osx-pkg] ./configure
--prefix=/Users/user/Downloads/mythtv/.osx-packager/build --disable-static
--enable-shared
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-static, --enable-shared
configure: Setting lib to 'lib' (the default)
configure: Will try -pthread then -lpthread to enable POSIX Threads.
configure: CHECKS for site configuration
configure: CHECKS for programs
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in
`/Users/user/Downloads/mythtv/.osx-packager/src/git-1.7.3.4':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
[osx-pkg] Failed system call: " ./configure
--prefix=/Users/user/Downloads/mythtv/.osx-packager/build --disable-static
--enable-shared " with error code 77
Died at ./osx-packager-qtsdk.pl line 1401.



On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 10 October 2013 19:24, OM Ugarcina <mo.ucina at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Much appreciate the advice. Since I already have the computer , it does
> not hurt to try . Anyway it is a learning exercise as much as anything
> else. Is there a guide on how to do the compile with these perl build
> scripts . I think I will try that first since I only want the front-end . I
> understand that mac ports tries to build the whole thing ( May resort to
> this if all else fails ). Please point me to where the guides are (with
> commands I need to execute) and where the perl scripts and source code for
> ppc can be found . Being a beginner with Macs I'll need a bit of
> hand-holding to get me started. Really appreciate your help.
>
> You'll need to get xcode 3.1.4 that is the last one supporting PPC.
>
> Then build myth using the instructions there:
> https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/tree/master/OSX/build
>
> basically, it's doing:
>
> osx-packager-qtsdk -verbose -qtsrc 4.8.5 -gcc
>
> you need -gcc because the llvm compiler in this version of xcode is very
> buggy
>
> it will fail retrieving the Qt source code, so when it fails, retrieve
> the archive:
> http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.5/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.5.tar.gz
>
> and copy that file into
> .osx-packager/src
>
> and re-run the command:
> osx-packager-qtsdk -verbose -qtsrc 4.8.5 -gcc
>
> good luck.
>
> be prepared to wait a very long time
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