[apnar]

My steps might be the hard way, but here were all my steps to build the update .tar for OpenELEC:

aboredguy,

Nice write up on the steps. I wrote that entry on the xbmc wiki with build instructions a while back, sorry I hadn't updated it when OpenELEC changed their build system. I just went and updated it with the few changes needed. I also switched it from fetzerch to janbar version. Anyway, building should boil down to simply this once you have a machine with all the dependancies:

Code:

# grab soruce
git clone https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv.git

# go into source directory
cd OpenELEC.tv

# checkout version you want
git checkout 4.1.2

#run script from http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=MythTV_PVR/BuildFromSource#Build_MythTV_git_into_OpenELEC
~/update-xbmc-pvr-addons.sh

# build project - come back tomorrow
PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make release

No need for apache or anything extra like that. Obviously change PROJECT and ARCH as desired, also may want to change Generic in script (although I doubt it'd matter). If you're going to be building semi-frequently it's worthwhile to keep the "source" directory around between builds as it'll save having to redownload all the source files every single time.

apnar,

Has the the buildsystem changed? I tried following the above build steps for OpenElec master and pvr.mythtv master (I think this should give me Helix + myth head). It looks like autoheader is placing headers in the wrong locations, and even after manually moving, libraries are output in the wrong directory structure.

Yeah, looks like things changed again with openelec. If you look at ./packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr-addons/patches/xbmc-pvr-addons-buildfix.patch in the standard OpenELEC source you'll see they're doing a lot of path swapping for LIBS and INCLUDES for the normal pvr-addons package. We'll need to expand that patch to cover the paths in pvr.mythtv. I'll give it a shot when I have some time in the next few days.