In 43D65ED5.80109@the-moon.net, Richard Wall wrote:

I just noticed that there is now an uptodate vdr package in Debian sid, but is there an easy "Debian" way of compiling plugins for it. I specifically need the dxr3 plugin, but it doesn't seem to be available as a package.

I found the command debianize-vdrplugin, but am not quite sure how to procede after running it. Can anyone give any hints on which files need editing in the ./debian folder?

I didn't realise there was a debianize-vdrplugin command. What I did was set up a skeleton /usr/src/vdr/ with /usr/src/vdr/config.h symlinked to /usr/include/vdr/config.h and /usr/src/vdr/PLUGINS/lib symlinked to /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/. If you unpack the plugins as normal in /usr/src/vdr/PLUGINS/src and build them with `make all', most of them seem to work OK then. I had to alter softdevice's Makefile though to use fixed paths for libdir, otherwise it seemed to rely on the CWD at runtime. I haven't used the dxr3 plugin for a long time, but I did use it successfully this way in the past.