Compile MythTV from CVS

Note This page is no longer relevant MythTV now uses SVN (subversion) for development.

This document informs you on how to download and run the latest CVS builds of the core MythTV package. It assumes that you already have a working Knoppmyth R4V5 client running MythTV 0.16.

Please note that it is very easy to stop MythTV working if the latest cvs build is broken. It is strongly recommended that you join the http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-commits/ and http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev/ mailing lists.

Installing CVS client

If you have never used CVS before, you will probably need to install it using apt-get install cvs

Download from CVS

To download mythtv from cvs, follow this script at a Linux command prompt after logging on to your mythtv box.

 
mkdir ~mythtv
cd ~mythtv
cvs -d :pserver:mythtv@cvs.mythtv.org:/var/lib/mythcvs login
Logging in to :pserver:mythtv@cvs.mythtv.org:/var/lib/mythcvs
CVS password: mythtv
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:mythtv@cvs.mythtv.org:/var/lib/mythcvs checkout mythtv

Configuring the source code

After the download completes (and this can take some time), you need to configure the MythTV sourcecode for your Knoppmyth installation. This is done (as of March 2005) using the configure script. Use the following commands to see a list of options for this script.

cd ~/mythtv/mythtv
./configure --help

Before you can compile MythTV on Knoppmyth you need to run configure with at least the --prefix option.

cd ~/mythtv/mythtv
./configure --prefix=/usr

You also need to change or enable any additional features of MythTV you want now such as DVB support (see DVBHowTo).

Compiling MythTV

To compile MythTV use these commands, and have a cup of coffee, this will take some time.

cd ~/mythtv/mythtv
export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3
qmake mythtv.pro
make

Install MythTV

Its useful to backup the original release version of MythTV first.

mkdir ~/mythtvbackup
cp --no-dereference /usr/lib/libmyth* ~/mythtvbackup/
cp /usr/bin/myth* ~/mythtvbackup/

to install the newly compiled cvs version, run

/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop
cd ~/mythtv/mythtv
sudo make install

/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start

To Update your local CVS copy of the sourcecode

cd ~mythtv
cvs -d :pserver:mythtv@cvs.mythtv.org:/var/lib/mythcvs login
Logging in to :pserver:mythtv@cvs.mythtv.org:/var/lib/mythcvs
CVS password: mythtv
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:mythtv@cvs.mythtv.org:/var/lib/mythcvs update mythtv