[Solved] fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

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[Solved] fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

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Hi - I'm recompiling fixes/32 after pulling in the last few GIT updates, but now I get this error when I try to compile:

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make[2]: Entering directory '/var/work/Install/MythTV/GIT-32/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts'
cp -f hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py
cp: cannot create regular file 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [Makefile:737: obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/work/Install/MythTV/GIT-32/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:504: sub-scripts-install_subtargets] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/work/Install/MythTV/GIT-32/mythtv/mythtv/programs'
make: *** [Makefile:75: programs_install] Error 2
This was my configure command:

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./configure --with-bindings=perl,python,php --enable-libmp3lame --disable-libxvid --enable-nonfree --disable-distcc --disable-libx264 --disable-libx265 --disable-audio-pulseoutput --disable-sdl --disable-audio-jack
I've never seen this before. Am I missing a library, or is there something else I should add to my configure command? I've been building from source like this with the same configure command for over a year and haven't had this issue before.

I'm on an up to date Gentoo system and all the packages are from stable branch other than sys-kernel/gentoo-source and few Kodi add-ons.
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Re: fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

Post by blm-ubunet »

This is also a bit of a laugh..
./configure --previous

master branch here.
/programs folder compiled okay here without (before) running configure.

And seems to compile okay after the below process (I have to modify configure before can use)..

In /mythtv/
make clean
make distclean
(then repeat those 2 cmds in /mythplugins/ folder

In /mythtv/
./configure --some_options
make
make install
cd ../mythplugins
./configure --some_options
make
make install

It is actually better to run make clean distclean before git pull.
There's some other better clean up cmd that I forgot.
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Re: fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

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I'm not sure what you're getting at with

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This is also a bit of a laugh..
./configure --previous
I've always run after "make clean" & "make distclean" before I compile, but I do run both of those after "git pull" but I'll try it in the other order if you think it will help.
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Re: fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

Post by blm-ubunet »

Configure in git master is not right..
--previous was a valid cmd option & now it is complete nonsense filling shell with repeated text in endless loop....

Note I was compiling git master.

It will not help now. It's only a minor point anyway.
There can be file/folder structure that is changed by the git pull & then the make clean etc does not always work 100%.
But there is a simple git repo clean up cmd, I just forget what it is.

I would browse the github repo branch & have look to see if files are renamed or folders moved. Can then do some surgery on your clone.
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Re: fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

Post by paulh »

That looks like a problem with your python or git install to me. Not sure what though. File permissions possibly? Does the file /var/work/Install/MythTV/GIT-32/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py exist? What about /var/work/Install/MythTV/GIT-32/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py
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Re: fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

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I get now sometimes the same error on my laptop after upgrading to Fedora 37.
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Re: fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

Post by kmdewaal »

The error can be reproduced as follows.

Start with a master source tree fresh from "git clone https//github.com/MythTV/mythtv" and then:

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configure --prefix=/my_target_directory --compile-type=debug
make
this builds OK.

Then do this:

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make clean
make
and then the build fails with this error:

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cp -f hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py
cp: cannot create regular file 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [Makefile:503: obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/klaas/mma-dev/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:492: sub-scripts-make_first] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
As I understand it, the Makefile is created by qmake from a scripts.pro file.
What goes wrong is that the "cp" command tries to copy a file into directory obj/hardwareprofile/distros but there is no distros directory in obj/hardwareprofile.
After a "make distclean" and a new "configure" the make succeeds again.

The nearest related commit I could find is fe6a417adc419b21483da06d2e9ec02a552c1ed5 "Copy files to the right place when updating python executable." but that is from almost two years ago.
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Re: fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

Post by kmdewaal »

The problem disappears when commit fe6a417adc419b21483da06d2e9ec02a552c1ed5 is reverted.
However, the commit text describes that it solves a problem in copying Python executables so it cannot just be reverted in master.

@linuxdude42 can you please have a look at this?

Thanks,
Klaas.
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Re: fixes/32 Compile Error - 'obj/hardwareprofile/distros/__init__.py': No such file or directory

Post by hampton »

Thanks for the head's up, Klaas.I just fixed this problem in both master and fixes/32.

master: 00e4fc531cb87e117e035f0e967b79847c9982f1
fixes-32: f358f305c36fe6d52915c74b55ba17e84855ee8e
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