Difference between revisions of "MacOS X Tips"

Revision as of 17:27, 3 January 2011

mdinfo: Mac equivalent to locate (since it seems locatedb isn't periodically updated for OS X)

At the time of writing the current (14660) revision of mythtv does not build for Mac OS X. One working build is 14225. To build this:

NB. Ensure you don't have xmms or xmms-shlibs installed via fink/apt-get

Alternatively, to fix the latest version for an Intel Mac:

svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv/contrib/OSX mythtv
cd mythtv
Add "'--arch=pentium4'," to the mythtv args list around line 488 of osx-packager.pl
./osx-packager.pl
You'll get an "ERROR: CPU specific ./configure options failed compile test" warning when osx-packager runs configure for mythtv, but this can be ignored

This only seems to work until the next DHCP refresh. Better to set this at the DHCP server so that it hands out the domain with a DHCP request.

sudo hostname -s host.domain.com

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 == Setting the domain name ==
+This only seems to work until the next DHCP refresh. Better to set this at the DHCP server so that it hands out the domain with a DHCP request.
 <pre>
 sudo hostname -s host.domain.com