[mythtv-users] V35 install on Archlinux using cmake is missing python modules used in find_orphans.py

Roland Ernst rcrernst at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 19:46:27 UTC 2025


On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
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>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>> So I had some success on the system with cmake build. Now I have
>>> site-packages/MythTV with a bunch of .py files.
>>>
>>> I did this:
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>>> sudo cmake --preset qt5 -DMYTH_BINDINGS_INSTALL_ROOT=/
>>> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr 2>&1 | tee ~/stage1-log
>>> sudo cmake --build build-qt5 2>&1 | tee ~/stage2.log
>>>
>>>  Jim A
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>> And now find_orphans.py works
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>> Jim A
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> So I'm as confused as I've ever been.  The variable
> MYTH_BINDINGS_INSTALL_ROOT=/ does not make sense to me.  I'd buy /usr but
> not /.
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> IMHO, before this conversion to cmake is complete there needs to be a lot
> of variable documentation and when to use which one where.
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> Jim A
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Jim,
I asked for the file "MythTV/_version*s*.py" . Note the *"s" *on the end.
It should be
/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/MythTV/_version*s*.py

Please post the content of that file

Regards,
Roland
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