Hello,

I'm on Gentoo (amd64), KDE 4.1.2. I tried to install Amarok 2 (from SVN) just a little while ago. This proved very difficult because:

Amarok demands that some MySQL client lib is compiled with -fPIC. I don't think I've any way of controlling that when installing the Mysql ebuild. I tried installing multiple times, one time even with CCFLAGS="-fPIC" - compiling the entire MySQL package with -fPIC (which is not recommended either).

I thought Mysql support in Amarok was optional? But I could not find any option to disable it. Anyway, it would be neat to have Mysql support too...

Could anyone advice on how I can get the latest Amarok installed? ...or does anyone know if theres a fix planned (either in Amarok, Gentoo or Mysql) that will improve the situation.

Sorry if my issue is allready solved and I didn't notice it, please RTFM me then
- I really just wanted to ask about this before starting on hours of compiling failing miserably like my last attempt. 

Thanks,
Magnus

Did you enable the 'embedded' USE flag for mysql? If not, do this, re-emerge mysql, then re-emerge amarok svn.

Yes. The embedded USE flag has been enabled and mysql has been re-emerged.
I don't think -fPIC is related to this flag?

This Gentoo bug has some information and a possible workaround building an experimental Mysql package with -fPIC support.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238487

Maybe this one is not in the hands of the Amarok crew - but they are affected by this issue.

As far as I was aware, the -fPIC thing wasn't an issue any more - what errors/messages are you getting, and where did you get the amarok svn ebuild? There are several different ebuilds floating around - the one in gentoo's kde4-live overlay works without any -fPIC magic...
Also, are you using exclusive 64bit, or multilib?

Ok - since you're saying this might no longer be an issue I'll give it another go.

I'm using KDE 4.1.2 thats now in the Gentoo tree, so no overlays. I had some problems with the ebuild, so I've downloaded the SVN and ran cmake manually.

As for exclusive or multilib - I'm not sure how to tell... ? Sorry for the ignorance

I've just come across this very problem and found that adding the embedded USE flag solved it, Amarok 2 is compiling as I type .

xeonman9000 wrote:I've just come across this very problem and found that adding the embedded USE flag solved it, Amarok 2 is compiling as I type .

Ok. I tried building after just manually checking out from SVN. Which is not a very Gentoo way to do things.
Where did you find an Amarok 2 ebuild? ...did you have to use an overlay?

Thanks,
Magnus

Sorry I posted that a bit too soon. I recompiled MySQL with the embedded USE flag, downloaded the amarok beta release and managed to get past the cmake stage which I hadn't before I re-emerged MySQL, compilation then failed at about 96%.

Yeah. That sounds like what I experienced. It's probably the -fPIC issue there.
Perhaps there's an ebuild in some overlay that has some config flag or something that fixes this.
Haven't had time to try it out any more yet - but my next step would probably be trying to add the kde4-live overlay (as mentioned by dangle earlier, see quote) and then hopefully be able to unmask and emerge only amarok 2 from it.

As far as I was aware, the -fPIC thing wasn't an issue any more - what errors/messages are you getting, and where did you get the amarok svn ebuild? There are several different ebuilds floating around - the one in gentoo's kde4-live overlay works without any -fPIC magic...
Also, are you using exclusive 64bit, or multilib?

Here is the console output at the point at which it fails, if this is of any use to anyone:

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ction-ipodcollection.dir/IpodMeta.o
[ 92%] Building CXX object src/collection/ipodcollection/CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-ipodcollection.dir/IpodCollection.o
[ 92%] Building CXX object src/collection/ipodcollection/CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-ipodcollection.dir/IpodCollectionLocation.o
[ 92%] Building CXX object src/collection/ipodcollection/CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-ipodcollection.dir/handler/IpodHandler.o
/tmp/amarok-1.92.2/src/collection/ipodcollection/handler/IpodHandler.cpp: In member function 'void Ipod::IpodHandler::getCoverArt(Itdb_Track*, Meta::IpodTrackPtr)':
/tmp/amarok-1.92.2/src/collection/ipodcollection/handler/IpodHandler.cpp:1122: warning: missing sentinel in function call
Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/libamarok_collection-ipodcollection.so
[ 92%] Built target amarok_collection-ipodcollection
Generating MtpCollectionLocation.moc
Generating mtpmeta.moc
Generating MtpCollection.moc
Generating moc_MtpHandler.cpp
Scanning dependencies of target amarok_collection-mtpcollection
[ 93%] Building CXX object src/collection/mtpcollection/CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-mtpcollection.dir/amarok_collection-mtpcollection_automoc.o
/tmp/amarok-1.92.2/src/collection/mtpcollection/handler/MtpHandler.h:66: error:'LIBMTP_raw_device_t' has not been declared
/tmp/amarok-1.92.2/src/collection/mtpcollection/handler/MtpHandler.h:158: error: 'LIBMTP_raw_device_t' has not been declared
/tmp/amarok-1.92.2/src/collection/mtpcollection/handler/MtpHandler.h:169: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'LIBMTP_raw_device_t' with no type
/tmp/amarok-1.92.2/src/collection/mtpcollection/handler/MtpHandler.h:169: error: expected ';' before '*' token
make[2]: *** [src/collection/mtpcollection/CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-mtpcollection.dir/amarok_collection-mtpcollection_automoc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/collection/mtpcollection/CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-mtpcollection.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2


Hm - but that looks like a syntax error. I might have to take back what I said about -fPIC in your case. 

I was able to build and install Amarok 2 Beta (v 1.90-r1) by:

- adding the "kde" overlay

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layman -a kde

- adding a portage keyword

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echo "media-sound/amarok ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

- emerging

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emerge -vat amarok

But download the SVN and compile directly with cmake gave me trouble.

KDE 4.1.2 is in the Gentoo tree, but as far as I can tell the latest Amarok version there is 1.4.10-r1. Theres also a version called 1.4.9999-r2, which I thought maybe was the latest 2-beta, but I wasn't able to unmask that (since I'm such a noob?). Anyways - an easy way to get the Amarok 2 beta is to add the overlay etc. I'm not sure if it's ideal.

1.90 is Beta1.

hi,

i'm kinda puzzled about the current situation in gentoo for amarok, as i am using 1.4.10-r1 and wanted to check the latest  svn state, but to no avail.

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[U] media-sound/amarok
     Available versions:
        (0)     1.4.8 1.4.9.1 (~)1.4.9.1-r1 1.4.10 (~)1.4.10-r1 [M](**)1.4.9999-r2
        (4.1)   [m](~)1.90 (~)1.90-r1 [m](**)1.92.2[1]

[1] "kde" /usr/portage/local/layman/kde-testing


i tried to emerge 1.92.2 (also -fpic mysql, but no help) from kde-testing which died like this

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Linking CXX shared module ../../../../lib/libqtscript_gui.so
[ 98%] Built target qtscript_gui
make: *** [all] Fehler 2


right now i'm unmerging 1.4.10 and trying 1.90-r1 as a file collision prevents the two installed at the same time (yes, they're supposed to be slotted, arghh)
Any idea how to get a 1.4.10 and amarok2-(beta,svn,whatever)  running at the same time? Where did the svn ebuild hide to?