Re: [gpsd-dev] Half the port problems are solved; seeking help with RTCM2 driver

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 04/21/2012 07:42 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>:
>> Almost all architectures have built the new gpsd upload now. Indeed the
>> italk/trimble and ublox issues are fixed and the najoks + rtcm2 tests still
>> fail.
> 
> As I expected.
> 
> According to your log, we now have failure only on s390, s390x, and sparc.
> I guess that means there are big-endian machines on which the RTCM2 driver
> is working as expected?  (It would be helpful if I had a complete list of the
> architectures on which regression tests are passing.)
> 
> If so, that is good news.  It means the big-endian version of the weird
> structure-overlay hack I used is working.  In turn, that means that 
> the only failures are machines for which the compilers ignore #pragma pack(1).
> 
> I know in a general way how to fix this, but the details will be ugly
> and difficult.

Actually it was easy - I've tried it on s390 only, but I guess it fixes sparc
and s390x, too:

http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=a3f6c603400bb07f2da80aab6850e8a4788287a4



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