[mythtv] compilation problem

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Mon Aug 20 17:29:29 UTC 2007


Joe Ripley wrote:
> On 8/20/07, marek <mark_kiddy at wp.pl> wrote:
>> thx for Your reply
>>
>> make distclean doesn.t help
>>
>> files themeinfo.cpp and themeinfo.h exists exactly in libs/libmyth/
>>
>> I even fresh downloaded mythtv cvs - the same error in the same place.
>> it's look like a linker problem or sth.
>> still no luck...
>>
>> any ideas ?
> 
> I had a problem a while back when I upgraded to the latest SVN
> release.  My problem was that the linker was trying to link the new
> object files to my older (pre-SVN) libraries sitting in my file
> system.  I don't know why it would target existing libraries instead
> of the newly compiled ones.
> 
> My solution was to delete all of the libmyth* files from my /usr/lib
> or /usr/local/lib directories.  After this, the build finished
> normally.  Not sure if this is the same issue you're having or not...
> so, as usual, backing up anything you delete is probably a good idea.
> :)
> 

If you are running SVN it probably helps to edit /etc/ld.so.conf to put 
/usr/local/lib ahead of /usr/lib.
Like PATH ldconfig will use the first instance of whatever it is looking 
for. Thus older rpm based installed libraries will be ignored.


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