[mythtv-users] I see major trouble ahead ...

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 26 19:37:28 UTC 2014


But while there's music and moonlight and love and romance


Let's face the music and dance







I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY sorry, but I just couldn't resist.

I'll go now.



On 26 October 2014 19:12, Saul A. Peebsen <jaglover at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:25:27 -0400
> Rich Freeman <r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Saul A. Peebsen
>> <jaglover at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The last version that works for me as FE is 317d5b7.
>>
>> Yikes - that is 0.27 without any fixes at all.
>>
>> Have you confirmed that you can rebuild that version and it still
>> works?  That would eliminate issues with the toolchain/etc which could
>> be causing false alarms.
>
> I just rebuilt mythtv-0.27_p20140321 in my up to date ~amd64 desktop
> and it built fine and it runs good.
> Then I built 0.27.1_p20140713 and it is broken.
>
>> At that point you could either tweak the ebuild to directly build
>> against a git commit (probably a bit of work, but not terribly hard to
>> do).  Then you can checkout the mythtv repository and start up git
>> bisect in it, and at each step just copy/paste the commit ID into the
>> ebuild and re-install it.  You could also just try building mythtv
>> without using the ebuild, but mythtv is fairly modular and I'm not
>> sure how straightforward it is to run it without installing it.  I
>> suppose you could configure with --prefix=/var/tmp/mythtv or something
>> like that, and then run "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/tmp/mythtv/lib
>> /var/tmp/mythtv/mythfrontend".  That might be easier than tweaking the
>> ebuild, but you might want to first test the known-good and known-bad
>> versions to make sure they still do/don't work since your configure
>> options might be different than the ebuild's.  Your Gentoo build
>> output should contain the configure command line that it uses, so you
>> could use the same one except for the prefix.
>
> I have no problem building it by hand and it goes to /usr/local (which
> is on path) so plain running ldconfig will do it.
> However, I have no clue how to build specific commit ID. Something I
> have to learn ...
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Cheers, Saul
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