[mythtv] Compiling mythtv and running without installing.

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 00:58:07 UTC 2012


On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 February 2012 02:49, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 5. Try to run mythfrontend from the shell possibly without installing
>> (since I do not want to mess with my production mythtv).
>>
>> I believe I can easily fix that by extending my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
>> include the other mythtv libraries..
>>
>> I am going to still post this however.
>
> Here is what I do to compile and try mythtv on the same machine that
> run my production server, so yes, like you I don't want to mess up my
> production install.
>
> I compile mythtv like so:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/jyavenard/build --compile-type=debug
>
> I do make && make install as usual
>
> To run it:
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/jyavenard/build/lib
> /home/jyavenard/build/bin/mythfrontend
>

Makes sense to me. Thanks.  I will try later.

John


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