[mythtv-users] TRUNK not compiling under hardy, should it?

[Brad Templeton]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:55:17AM -0700, Brad Templeton wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:31:55PM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > 2009/10/19 Brad Templeton <brad+myth at templetons.com>:
> > 
> > > That's correct, as far as Ubuntu is concerned in what they support.
> > >
> > > But the idea of an LTS release, as they have put it forward, is
> > > that this is a release that will get support for bug fixes and
> > > security problems for a long period.    As a result, people will
> > > run it on stable systems (most notably servers) to avoid the regular
> > > risks and hassles of upgrade.
> > 
> > Qt4 is neither a bug fix nor a security fix...
> 
> I would hope you don't think I am saying it is.  I am not even
> sure how QT4 came up, I've had it on the system (I've been running
> earlier versions of pre-.22 trunk on this sever for a long time, so
> it's unrelated to what I was talking about.)
> > 
> > The MythTV developers have made the decision to use Qt4 ... Which is
> > available on all platforms AFAIK.
> > If you want Qt4 on your Hardy release, you can... this has nothing to
> > do with mythtv
> 
> Again, I am not sure what you are referring to here.   Since .22 is
> largely about the new UI code and qt4, of course I have that installed.
> 
> > mythtv 0.22 will run perfectly fine on a 8 years old linux, provided
> > it has Qt4 installed on it
> 
> Good to know.

BTW, let me add a resolution -- it's some sort of subversion problem,
in that an older copy of programinfo.h was kept around for unknown
reasons.   A fresh checkout, rather than one updated with svn up,
from about 6 months ago, compiles OK on hardy.