Bug 291694

Summary:	media-tv/xbmc-9.04 depends on mysql only
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Olliver Schinagl <oliver>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	damien.thebault
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	xbmc mythtv configure patch Patch for xbmc ebuild (xbmc-9.11-r5.ebuild)

Description Olliver Schinagl 2009-11-03 12:33:37 UTC

From what I gather from this somewhat older post (http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=55794) is that XBMC used to use only SQLite and there was a proposal (and appearantly executed?) to also include other DBM's.

From what I gather, XBMC thus could work stand alone without a db backend, with just sqlite. Why are we demanding mysql support, when we could work with the much lighter sqlite depending on a useflag? Mysql, postgres and sqlite useflags exist allready in portage.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-11-08 14:36:54 UTC

the source code is explicit:
AC_CHECK_LIB([mysqlclient], [main],, AC_MSG_ERROR($missing_library))

xbmc wont configure without mysql installed

Comment 2 Damien Thébault 2010-11-22 19:27:08 UTC

xbmc doesn't directly depend on mysql, but includes a mythtv media source.

I added a --enable-mythtv option to ./configure and modified the ebuild and I'm able to use xbmc without the mysql dependency.

Comment 3 Damien Thébault 2010-11-22 19:30:32 UTC

Created attachment 255131 [details, diff]
xbmc mythtv configure patch

Comment 4 Damien Thébault 2010-11-22 19:31:14 UTC

Created attachment 255133 [details, diff]
Patch for xbmc ebuild (xbmc-9.11-r5.ebuild)