[mythtv-users] Building V35 for the Raspberry Pi 4

[James Abernathy]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 2/12/25 06:15, James Abernathy wrote:
>
> I think the complete rebuild is required every time you want to build
> mythtv-light into a .deb.
>
> I tried on my Production backend which is Debian 12 x86_64 to just do a
> git pull on both packaging and mythtv repos and then checkout fixes/35.
> Next I tried the build_package.sh and it flew through the build as very
> little had changed.
>
> i tried to install that .deb file and it did install cleanly, but
> mythbackend would not run on reboot because it could not find
> libmythtvexiv2.so...
>
> Not sure what causes that, but this time I followed your 2 steps above and
> also had to remove all the .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
>
> Then I rebuilt the mythtv-light package and it installed and worked
> correctly.
>
> Jim A
>
>
> Something does not add up.
>
> build_package.sh calls config.sh then build.sh then package.sh
>
> config.sh removes the DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX directory and the build-qt5
> directory, so removing them before starting is not actually necessary.
>
> Did you pull the latest from the packaging repository?
>
> Peter
>
I did completely remove the build directory which contains both the mythtv
and packaging repos. I also removed the $HOME/proj directory.

But the key is removing all the files in the /usr/lib/pkgconfig directory.
If I don't do that then libmythexiv2.... doesn't get included. The deb
needs to have those even if they are on the system and unchanged since the
last build because if you post the .deb you can't depend on the state of
the new system previous to installing the .deb.

I just took the .debs for mythtv-light and mythplugins for the PI and
posted them to the v35 folder on Google drive. I then started fresh with a
new RPI OS (Debian 12) and installed those 2 packages and ran my script to
set up the database, backend service, etc. and it seems to work fine.

I did find out the cause of my date/language problem on the RPI.  The PI
ignores what you put in your setup when building the image with rpi-images.
So the first step should be to run sudo raspi-config and set the locale
stuff.  It even had ISO instead of UTF-8. Once that is right, the web app
is right.

JIm A
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