Bug 305229 – media-tv/xbmc-9999 has optional webserver support

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jan Vansteenkiste 2010-02-15 12:02:41 UTC]

Looks like xbmc required an additional library.

I found net-libs/libmicrohttpd-0.4.5 in the zugaina overlay and am currently testing to see if that works.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 hal 2010-02-15 13:47:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Looks like xbmc required an additional library.
> 
> I found net-libs/libmicrohttpd-0.4.5 in the zugaina overlay and am currently
> testing to see if that works.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 

(In reply to comment #0)
> Looks like xbmc required an additional library.
> 
> I found net-libs/libmicrohttpd-0.4.5 in the zugaina overlay and am currently
> testing to see if that works.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 

there is also a request on the bugtracker to get libmicrohttpd into the official portage tree: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224165

yesterday i posted a slightly modified ebuild (path to sources) over there. libmicrohttpd was built fine (local overlay) and xbmc compiled fine, too.

[Comment 2 Cameron Tacklind 2010-02-26 19:14:25 UTC]

You can also disable webserver support in xbmc to get past this dependancy:

--- /usr/portage/media-tv/xbmc/xbmc-9999.ebuild 2010-01-25 06:07:03.000000000 -0800
+++ /usr/local/portage/media-tv/xbmc/xbmc-9999.ebuild   2010-02-23 01:24:02.000000000 -0800
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@
        econf \
                --disable-ccache \
                --disable-optimizations \
+               --disable-webserver \
                --enable-external-libraries \
                --enable-goom \
                --enable-gl \

I see a new use flag in the future. However I cannot say that this works %100 since I'm caught up in the `doins -r "${S}"/web/*/styles/*/ || die`

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2010-03-07 06:30:56 UTC]

re-open once the dep gets added.  the webserver is disabled in the meantime.

http://sources.gentoo.org/media-tv/xbmc/xbmc-9999.ebuild?r1=1.48&r2=1.49

[Comment 4 Stijn Tintel 2010-03-29 09:53:25 UTC]

libmicrohttpd, which is the only dependency to be able to build the webserver again, is in the zugaina overlay, and works fine with Xbmc-9999 and the webserver enabled.

Please have libmicrohttpd in portage ASAP, as XBMC is useless without webserver. (many remotes are controlling XBMC via HTTP).

[Comment 5 metolic147 2010-04-26 18:11:37 UTC]

I still have problems compiling with 9999 ebuild even with libmicrohttpd installed.

I got libmicrohttpd installed adding the ebuild to /usr/local/portage, then enabled the webserver commenting the "--disable-webserver \" line in the ebuild. Compilation fails near the end of the process, here's the output: http://pastebin.com/TUhBEfCR

here's "emerge --info" http://pastebin.com/MTW7UaQz

here's "emerge -pv xbmc":

[ebuild   R   ] media-tv/xbmc-9999  USE="aac alsa sse sse2 vdpau xrandr (-altivec) -avahi -css -debug -joystick -midi -profile -pulseaudio" 0 kB


If I leave webserver disabled it compiles successfully.

[Comment 6 hal 2010-04-26 22:25:23 UTC]

i guess commenting with a "#" isn't a good idea, since "\" is a linebreak. just try to remove the entire line or set "--enable-webserver \". 

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2010-08-12 05:13:47 UTC]

*** Bug 332315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Craig Andrews 2010-08-14 16:40:52 UTC]

libmicrohttpd is now in portage (bug 224165 has been resolved).

Can we re-open this bug and add the webserver use flag with the libmicrohttpd dependency?

[Comment 9 SpanKY 2010-08-14 17:56:04 UTC]

http://sources.gentoo.org/media-tv/xbmc/xbmc-9999.ebuild?r1=1.60&r2=1.61