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Whats the highest rev # that youve been able to successfully build on archlinux ? i lost my drive and im unable to build it on a fresh arch install

I just built one two days ago. I'll try and rebuild tonight and see how it goes.

so what rev. and are you building on 32bit or 64bit arch ?

I just built 17268 (HEAD) with no problems on 32bit archlinux.

Any way cou could paste bin your "pacman -Q "?
i know its the package version differences that breaks up the build for most of us archers.
or maybe youll be willing to share your PKGBUILD with us ?

There is a working package in aur called "xbmc-svn" that I use and that works without problems for me. I use yaourt to make installation easier, a simple "yaourt -S xbmc-svn" does the trick for me. I noticed it pulls at least one additional dependency from AUR since after the atlantis release, maybe that is what is causing problems ?

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20156

edit: I think the package it gets from AUR and compiles from source is libass:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID...hans=&SeB=

libass and tre are the 2 packages i had to build from aur to make deps. ive been trying for days now with different revisions on 2 arch64 boxes and one 32bit box. get the same build errors on all of them. all are updated. is there a way you could post your "pacman -Q" i can can compare our pkg ver ? i believe that is my problem (and many other archers)

Hey guys !

How is the performance in Archlinux ?

We have great performance degradation from Ubuntu Hardy to Intrepid with x264 encoded 1080p videos. CPU utilization of the two cores are maxed at 100-120% adding the together the two cores utilization.

How is with Archlinux ?

runs very very well on archlinux .. the only problem many ppl have with it is that they cannot compile it on their boxes . .. and ive yet to find a solution.
got 2 boxes here one with intel core duo and one with athlon xp , fresh install on both of them .. identical installs, and yet im unable to build it on my intel box and builds flawelessly on athlon.. but if you can build it on your box itll run good

Which Kernel do you use ?

@allanwww1
Arch core is at Kernel 2.6.28 atm. I can't really say anything about performance though because my AMD cpu is not up to the task to decode anything noteworthy in 1080p. Don't know if I can see the issue with 720p files on the other hand.

@gorus: I just changed the xbmc-svn pkgbuild to the newest svn revision and am building a new version now. This will take some time, if everything works out ok I will post both the PKGBUILD and the requested pacman output.

Ok, compilation just finished - this is the PKGBUILD I used, had to modify the original quite a bit because that did some strange copying around of the source files - amounting to several GB of wasted space - that I didn't have:

http://pastebin.com/m3618a272

And here is the output of pacman -Q:

http://pastebin.com/m561092db

Note that I haven't installed the new package yet, just compiled.

using stock arch kernel as well and hotzenpl0tz thannk you. been at it for days.
that successfull build i had on my athlon segfaults on intel box. im just out of ideas atm.
my build is always crashing after ./configure while making guilib

Quote:make -C guilib
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gorus/xbmc-svn/src/XBMC/XBMC-build/guilib'
/usr/bin/ccache g++ -MD -c -march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -g -D_DEBUG -Wall -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/lzo -g -D_DEBUG -Wall -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/lzo -D_LINUX -D_FILE_DEFINED -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DINSTALL_PATH="\"/usr/share/xbmc\"" -DHAS_SDL_JOYSTICK -DHAS_XRANDR -DHAS_PCRE -D'SVN_REV="17287"' -DDLL_PATH_LIBCURL="\"/usr/lib/libcurl.so\"" -I. -Icommon -I../xbmc -I../xbmc/cores -I../xbmc/linux -I../xbmc/utils -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/SDL ActionManager.cpp -o ActionManager.o
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../include/c++/4.3.2/bits/stl_algo.h:66,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../include/c++/4.3.2/algorithm:68,
from ../xbmc/linux/../../guilib/StdString.h:665,
from ../xbmc/linux/XHandle.h:28,
from ../xbmc/linux/PlatformInclude.h:27,
from system.h:139,
from include.h:33,
from ActionManager.cpp:23:
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../include/c++/4.3.2/cstdlib:132: error: ‘::realloc’ has not been declared
make[1]: *** [ActionManager.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gorus/xbmc-svn/src/XBMC/XBMC-build/guilib'
make: *** [guilib] Error 2
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...

Let me get right on it, will post the results in couple minutes

hotzenpl0tz Wrote:Ok, compilation just finished - this is the PKGBUILD I used, had to modify the original quite a bit because that did some strange copying around of the source files - amounting to several GB of wasted space - that I didn't have:

http://pastebin.com/m3618a272

And here is the output of pacman -Q:

http://pastebin.com/m561092db

Note that I haven't installed the new package yet, just compiled.

I've seen that error you got there on the forums before - also with archlinux and some workaround (that looks fishy to me though):

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=41607

Would be better to find out the reason though.