Bug 95039 – mythtv ebuid does not use directfb USE flag

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description James Gatt 2005-06-04 10:16:38 UTC]

The mythtv application has the capability to use directfb for video output, but 
it does not appear possible to enable this in the gentoo ebuild as it stands.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE = ... directfb ...
2. emerge mythtv

Actual Results:  
In the output from the build:

# Video Output Support
x11 support      yes
xrandr support   yes
xv support       yes
XvMC support     no
XvMC VLD support no
OpenGL vsync     yes
DirectFB         no


Expected Results:  
Build with directfb support. This is vital for decent video playback on some 
hardware.


Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-
2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May  9 2005, 02:01:35)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X1
1/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt curl directfb 
divx4linux dvb dvd dvdr emboss encode flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome 
gpm gtk gtk2 imlib joystick jpeg kde libg++ libwww lirc mad matrox mikmod mmx 
motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl 
png postgres python quicktime readline samba sdl shared slang spell sse ssl 
svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv xvid 
zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2005-06-04 11:39:05 UTC]

This isn't a configuration that any of us currently uses. It's not even
something that I could test on my machine. You'll probably have to do most of
the legwork on this one yourself.

[Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2005-06-06 02:46:18 UTC]

If you notice there is no DirectFB USE flag any more. I've probed the upstream
devs about directfb support and they can't even confirm or deny that it works.

It's a configuration that I haven't been able to find ANYONE using for over a
year so support for it has finally been dropped, unfortunately unless you can
come up with a series of patches that makes it happen using the ebuild then
support won't come back. No one has had the hardware to test for over a year,
that doesn't put much confidence in being able to fix these bugs.

AFAIK, using a real X server is also going to lead to better performance and a
leaner/meaner MythTV.

Marking this Won't Fix, unless you provide some good quality patches on this bug
and reopen it.