Is this still an issue?

Cannot reproduce with kodi-18.3 and the newest version of kodi-platform (R1573:b0a10efe259ed4c9fd1d593016bdce0c34c4512c).

Latest supported version of pvr-iptvsimple is now built as part of our "batteries included" version of Kodi.

Any comments re. the test of the recently landed pvr-iptvsimple-3.5.8?

Kodi-18.3 was landed in unstable last night (R1571:115a53714a61).

Good news! Kodi-18.3 now correctly builds and includes the pvr-iptvsimple-3.5.8 plugin now when I do a complete build. \o/

So, just so I'm sure we're on the same page:

I don’t think we should update to 4.0 or later because they seem to be for the next Kodi update possibly named Matrix? I think it would be wiser to stick with the 3.x.x series that explicitly states that it’s for Leia. Will be updating my revision to 3.5.8!

Because there's nothing to gain by having it as far as I can tell. Samba itself works fine without it.

Added mtools rundep to syslinux and successfully made a usb stick bootable with syslinux:

This was actually resolved in the 7.2 (and now 7.3) build by using the upstream download with pre-built packages.

I'm keeping this in mind for my next Kodi rebuild -- if we're lucky, it'll Just Work™ because it and its deps will be pulled in automagically by Kodi's own build scripts.

I appreciate you taking the time to make this work yourself. I'm a bit burnt out at the moment so not a lot of packaging happening from my side these days.

Do you get the same behaviour if you remove (the outdated) kodi-platform?

@DataDrake asked me to make this comment here:

@JoshStrobl: Sorry! Didn't mean to! *looks at mouse, backs away slowly from phab*

LGTM, thanks!

Newest patch version compiles, installs and works as expected with both

Previous build was apparently wonky. I've pushed a rebuild here: