[mythtv] Running frontend on PPC (yet again.. sorry)

[kevin.katkins at tiscali.co.uk]

Hi Jeremiah,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm running Debian Woody Stable on the iMac, although I've upgraded certain
bits to 'Unstable' to accommodate certain Myth dependencies. I've also installed
Qt 3.3 and LAME from source.

The machine itself is currently very low spec - G3 333MHz, 64MB RAM (!),
Mach64 6MB graphics - but if I can get the code to compile, and run after
a fashion, I'll add more memory (it's only going to be used as a frontend)

Anyway, I've had a go with the patch + latest CVS, but having problems with
compilation - specifically, the compiler (gcc 3.3) is crashing, with a note
of an internal error (+message from assembler - "End of file not at end
of line; new line inserted"). I think it's a problem with the machine, so
I'll investigate further and hopefully come back to you

Thanks again for your help,

Kevin.

>-- Original Message --
>From: Jeremiah Morris <jm at whpress.com>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv] Running frontend on PPC (yet again.. sorry)
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:55:14 -0400
>To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
>Reply-To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
>
>
>Hi Kevin - welcome to the list.
>
>On 22 Oct 2004, at 6:49 AM, kevin.katkins at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to get mythtv running on an old imac.
>
>Can you tell us what operating system you're running?
>
>>  I've searched the
>> lists and came across a patch by Gregorio Gervasio for an early CVS 
>> version
>> which allowed running a front end on ppc, for connection to a backend

>> running
>> x86.
>
>Nigel Pearson has submitted about three dozen patches for getting the 
>frontend to compile and run on an OS X box, so most of what was in that

>patch is probably in the current CVS release.  There's one outstanding

>big-endian patch, which is expected to go into CVS in the next few 
>days.
>
>http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/83140#83937
>
>You'll also have to edit your settings.pro file to turn on the 
>TARGET_ARCH_POWERPC flag.  After seeing the patched settings.pro, it 
>should be pretty straightforward.
>
>Aside from that, if you have problems with the latest CVS, please post

>specifics to the list.  I don't think there are many PPC folks here 
>right now, so any help and bug reports are appreciated.
>
>- Jeremiah
>
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