[mythtv] BusyBox compatibility

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On Sunday, July 11, 2010, Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have set up a ram based linux system to run mythtv. As a consequence i am using BusyBox and the way used to detect pulseaudio is not compatible with it.
>
> On the file mythtv-0.23/libs/libmyth/util.cpp (line 1281), ps -ae is used to detect if pulseaudio is running or not and this command does not work with busybox at all (the e is not supported and as a result you get grep pulseaudio in the list of results).
>
> For now on i have made a custom patch completely disabling this function and simply returning false without checking anything (as there is only alsa and no pulseaudio at all on my system).
>
> The question is now, couldn't we have a disable-audio-pulse option in configure (as we have for oss) in order to reduce mythtv size for such kind of system.
>
> An other solution to solve this problem would be to simply remove the ifdef in the function as the ps -ax command with grep -v grep would work on any linux system i think (busybox or not).
>
> Regards
>
> Bertrand
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Please lodge a ticket on trac

Thanks