Re: building mythtv 0.24 on el5, status and instructions

On 26-11-2010 11:23, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Sure! First of all what did you really use at the end? There were a
> couple of changes discussed back and forth in this thread.

1. I installed all required packages, although not all packages came 
from ATrpms as mentioned earlier.
2. Applied the patch from Andy Burns, apart from the line including 
linux/videodev2.h as that is already included by linux/videodev.h from 
the MythTV source
3. Manually compiled the source using the ./configure line from the 
.spec file.

> Also I don't really want to touch neither the vendor's, not ATrpms'
> shipped videodev*.h files. But the additional includes look like they
> could be add to the mythtv source, e.g. before #include
> <linux/videodev2.h>  you could add the necessary missing includes. Could
> you please do that?

Off course I can, but I am quite busy this weekend, will see what I can do.

 > This would make the changes less intrusive and also
> applicable in upstream mythtv, so future releases/trunk code will have
> this fixed.

I agree.

> Ideally we would have a patch to the mythtv sources only, which we can
> add to the package and submit as a mythtv ticket at the same time.

Yes, perhaps that would be a good idea, although I spoke to one of the 
devs in their IRC who had solved things by a newer kernel, although I 
think that is not the solution we want to push to ATrpms users using 
EL5. Here is the archive of that conversation: 
http://mythtv.beirdo.ca/ircLog/channel/1/2010-11-21 (look for jmartens 
(me), jya and Captain_Murdoch).

Kind regards,

Jonathan