[mythtv] i know that qt4 is not supported

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Thu Feb 8 10:54:45 UTC 2007


Rick Warner wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 13:04, Simon Kenyon wrote:
>   
>> Paul Catchpole wrote:
>>     
>>> Simon,
>>>
>>> What's the bug in QT3 on Gentoo?
>>>
>>> I'm running Gentoo, and using SVN Myth with no patching of QT...
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>       
>> the bug is that qt builds against libmysqlclient.so instead of
>> libmyqlclient_r.so
>> the former is not thread safe
>>
>> without this change i get a lot (and i mean a lot) of instability.
>> --
>> simon
>>     
>
> What kinds of problems were you seeing?
>
> I also run a gentoo system, and found that my qt was linking to the non _r 
> version as well.  I've been having a problem with my frontend locking up for 
> 5 minutes (exactly) when irsend sends a channel change command, and I wonder 
> if this is the cause?  I've patched my qt, rebuilt it, and will test it out 
> shortly to see if it resolves it.
>   

i was getting random crashes
see: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1396
--
simon


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