[ATrpms-devel] building mythtv 0.24 on el5, status and instructions

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 10:29 +1100, tony1 wrote:
> Maybe this is a silly suggestion ... but are you using the
> "centos-plus" kernel? My understanding is that the stock kernel has
> had the v4l stuff removed. 

Not removed, but they are quite old.

But perhaps centos' kernel-headers will really help to build the package
if the v4l bits are new enough. That's a good theory to test, and it
would help to fix the build. Any takers?

> On 19/11/10 04:11, Axel Thimm wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:09 +0100, Jonathan Martens wrote:
> > > On 18-11-2010 12:03, Steve Cliffe wrote:
> > > > Based on recent discussions I don't think this is, or will ever be
> > > > available for EL5 due to dependency issues.
> > > Any pointers to where I can find this thread? I only found this in the 
> > > archives mentioning that qt45 was the blocker and that it should be easy 
> > > to resolve:
> > The qt issue has been resolved, but then came a python 2.x issue which
> > has also been resolved. Now there is an unresolved v4l issue.
> > 
> > If you feel like it, please install qt47 on your system (the 4.7.0-8_14
> > build is recommended and is the el5 repo), you will also need the
> > package with atrpms' macros, e.g.
> > 
> >         yum install atrpms-rpm-config qt47 qt47-devel qt47-webkit-devel
> > 
> > next grab the latest 0.24 src.rpm. Try to build with
> > 
> >         rpmbuild --rebuild --without pulseaudio --without crystalhd mythtv-0.24-250.src.rpm
> > 
> > and you will hit the v4l issue. It doesn't look too difficult to fix, I
> > wonder how this got broken in the first place. But just because it looks
> > trivial (e.g. swapping out a header file) it may be not, so it need some
> > careful digging to understand the change and get it back t working.
> > 
> > Please reply on atrpms-devel, if it's about technical issues (like
> > having a fix ;).
> > 
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