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* There is nothing wrong with suggesting a port as the preferred solution, but that's not a good reason to remove the compile instructions. If there is a patch that needs applying, it should be made available, or better still, should be submitted to trac so that the code compiles cleanly without any system-specific hacks. | * There is nothing wrong with suggesting a port as the preferred solution, but that's not a good reason to remove the compile instructions. If there is a patch that needs applying, it should be made available, or better still, should be submitted to trac so that the code compiles cleanly without any system-specific hacks. | ||
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| + | * I wouldn't remove the instructions if they were correct but in fact they aren't. They are not complete (missing gmake, freetype2), recommend a very problematic way of building which causes troubles (--extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib) and i'm sure it confuses users more than the port. How do i know? I've updated the FreeBSD port since 0.21 and did a lot of testing and fixing thanks to various FreeBSD users. The patches for 0.22 are all available in the [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/mythtv/ FreeBSD Port] and i will submit them soon to get the missing ones commited. --[[User:Decke|Decke]] 18:45, 11 January 2010 (UTC) | ||
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The FreeBSD port for mythtv 0.22 has already been updated so I think it is better to suggest using this instead. Because it contains some fixes to known compile problems on FreeBSD and is more accurate. Any objections? --Decke 13:46, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
- There is nothing wrong with suggesting a port as the preferred solution, but that's not a good reason to remove the compile instructions. If there is a patch that needs applying, it should be made available, or better still, should be submitted to trac so that the code compiles cleanly without any system-specific hacks.
- I wouldn't remove the instructions if they were correct but in fact they aren't. They are not complete (missing gmake, freetype2), recommend a very problematic way of building which causes troubles (--extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib) and i'm sure it confuses users more than the port. How do i know? I've updated the FreeBSD port since 0.21 and did a lot of testing and fixing thanks to various FreeBSD users. The patches for 0.22 are all available in the FreeBSD Port and i will submit them soon to get the missing ones commited. --Decke 18:45, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
