AUR mythtv??

[jfabernathy]

I tried to build mythtv from AUR and got all the dependencies right, but when I tried makepkg I got the error about not available on armv7h.

I was going to try mythtv on an RP3 B+ to see if it could be a backend. The mythtv frontend is working on RP3s via a Raspbian package called Mythtv Light.

Any plans on an Archlinux version?

Jim A

[karog]

I have been running a mythtv backend on an odroid xu4 under arch linux (currently 4.14.87-1-ARCH) for a few years. I have

mythtv-1:0.28-6-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz
mythplugins-mythweb-1:29.0-2-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz

They are not the newest versions of mythtv but I would be willing to upload if you want them. I only use it for tv, not for music or anything else.

I have the following notes of some things I had to futz with to get it to work

cd /lib
ln -s libass.so.9.0.2 libass.so.5
cp -a /mnt/usb/lib/libx264.so.148 .
ln -s libvpx.so.5.0.0 libvpx.so.4
ln -s libexiv2.so.26.0.0 libexiv2.so.14

That cp of libx264 was from a copy I had somewhere else. You may have different versions of some libs you can try linking to.

[Kabbone]

You should get a bit familiar with AUR before blindly using it, because everybody can upload there without any security checks as far as I know and in the end it's just scripts how to compile the package and create a package for pacman for it, so probably you would blindly install anything with root.

Often they insert just x86 x86_64 in the architecture variable, often you can just add your architecture there and it will run. Some packages do also have special configure flags for some arm devices and probably you want to use them if they are available, so could also be worth taking a look at there.

EDIT: like I assumed there are some configure options for mythtv, you should check that out first before compiling and edit the PKGBUILD

[jfabernathy]

I'll fool around with the options some more. I just got mythtv built on raspbian 9 today so the code should work. I probably need to change the PRKBUILD to armv7h.

[jfabernathy]

There were too many dependencies that needed to be converted to support ARM. So I'll have to get smarter before I tackle this on ArchlinuxARM and RP3. I was mainly testing RP3B+ performance on Mythtv to see if it was usable. I was able to do this with Raspbian 9 and Mythtv-light.

[Kabbone]

If you already have built it on Debian, it shouldn't be too much effort to translate it to arch, you just have to put your build process in the PKGBUILD and probably the package naming scheme of your dependencies are a bit different to Debian