[mythtv-users] Newb - Needs help w/ CVS

[Jamie Richard]

What does a failure look like?  I got it to compile on Mandrake 9.0 but it
doesn't run.

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Aaron Stewart wrote:

> Just a word of advice to anyone who's getting grief building under
> Mandrake 9.0.. The CVS makefiles that come with mythtv seem to have gcc
> and g++ hard-coded, which then tries to link using g++ 2.96..
>
> Unfortunately, this causes an incompatibility with libqt3, which is
> built using gcc/g++ 3.2.  The makefiles need to be modified:
>
> CC = gcc-3.2
> CXX = g++-3.2
> LINK = g++-3.2
>
> Normally this would've been taken care of using automake/autoconf, but
> mythtv doesn't use those, so manual changes are necessary.  If you get
> some compiler errors having to do with undefined references
> "QApplication", "QString", etc... then that's why.
>
> I learned the hard way, so I thought I'd share..
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron C:\STEWART>
>
>
>
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