[mythtv-users] Compiling MythTV on a computer instead of the Xbox

[Ryan]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was able to compile and produce the deb packages for xebian 1.1.3
> (debian sarge), however, when I run the frontend, it seg faults on me.
>  More debugging is going to be needed, sigh.
>
> Here are breadcrumbs for people to try (in case I can't get to it):
> 1.  Setting up xebian to run in vmware:
> http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Vmware
> 2.  debian pkg'ing subdir for compiling:
> http://yoeu.net/~fa/mythtv-0.21.20080313-001.experimental.debian.tar.gz<http://yoeu.net/%7Efa/mythtv-0.21.20080313-001.experimental.debian.tar.gz>
> 3.  Grab the mythtv-0.21 sources; untar.
> 4.  Untar the tarball above inside of .../mythtv-0.21, so you should
> have .../mythtv-0.21/debian.  NOTE, this is experimental and as I
> stated above doesn't seem to work, it is here for people to help me
> debug.
> 5.  cd mythtv-0.21
> 6.  debian/rules binary
>
> That should start the build process and out will pop the deb packages.
>  Good luck.  On a side note, I tried the etch mythtv-0.21 deb source
> packages, but ran into dependency hell since I want to stay mostly on
> sarge.
>

Ok i was trying this, and well maybe you can help me out.  I followed the
steps, but im getting this error:

Writing /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/MythTV/.packlist
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21/bindings/perl'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21/bindings/perl'
( [ -d python ] && cd python ; /usr/bin/make -f Makefile install; ) || true
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21/bindings/python'
-o python -L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11 -lm
-lpthread
python setup.py install --root="/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21/debian/mythtv"
running install
error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
make[3]: *** [install] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21/bindings/python'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21/bindings'
( [ -d config ] && cd config ; /usr/bin/make -f Makefile install; ) || true
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21/config'
make[2]: `install' is up to date.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21/config'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21'
install -d debian/mythtv/usr/share/mythtv/sql
install -m 644 database/*.sql debian/mythtv/usr/share/mythtv/sql
dh_strip -pmythtv --tmpdir=debian/mythtv
rm -f debian/mythtv/usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf
debian/mythtv/usr/share/mythtv/FreeMono.ttf
dh_link -pmythtv-common usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf
dh_link -pmythtv-common usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf
usr/share/mythtv/FreeMono.ttf
dh_install --sourcedir=debian/mythtv -pmythtv-backend
usr/share/mythtv/setup.xml
cp: cannot stat `debian/mythtv//usr/share/mythtv/setup.xml': No such file or
directory
dh_install: command returned error code 256
make: *** [install] Error 1
xebian:/usr/local/src/mythtv-0.21#


I dont know if the python error is related to why is stopped at the end.
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