[mythtv-users] Help compiling mythtv from svn on Fedora

[Harry Orenstein]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 23:31:09 Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 22:16:19 John Nissley wrote:
> > I am running a Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 FE/BE combination.  I am now
> > interested in learning how to build from svn since there are aften some
> > fixes I would like to add but I have to wait until the next RPM build on
> > ATRPMS since I can not seem to figure out how to build it myself.
> >
> > I found the Installing MythTV SVN on Fedora guide in the wiki but I can
> > not seem to complete the procedure.  I get the whole way to the qmake
> > line and then the build fails.
> >
> > qmake PREFIX=/usr/local mythtv.pro
> > settings.pro:72: Unknown replace function: unique
> >
> > Any ideas why this is happening or maybe another piece of documentation
> > that I can use?
>
> Both ATrpms and RPM Fusion have svn trunk MythTV packages. Look at
> their respective spec files for clues on how to build. There's also
> a spec file in mythtv svn that more or less mirrors the RPM Fusion
> svn trunk spec file.

Or run the script 'build_myth.sh' which builds the rpm packages for you.  It's 
in trunk/packaging/rpm.  I prefer building rpms so it's easy to uninstall when 
running trunk.  Just in case.  ;-)

-- Harry O.