Re: [gpsd-dev] regresssion from 2011: git head fails to build on NetBSD

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
> I like Greg's suggestion of having scons check bail up front if chrpath isn't 
> installed.

Working on it.  That's a difficult spot to put a guard for purely technical
scons reasons.

> > I think that means your Python installation is too old.  What version are
> > you running? 
> 
> Python 2.7.5 (default, Oct  8 2013, 12:18:28) 
> [GCC 4.8.1 20130814 (Red Hat 4.8.1-6)] on linux2
> 
> That's on a not-yet-released Fedora 20 so there might be something strange on 
> that system.

That's strange.  Same version I'm running.
 
> I tried it on a Fedora 19 system but I've got a new problem.  This now 
> happens on both systems.
> 
> gcc -o gpsdecode -Wl,-rpath=/home/murray/gpsd/gpsd -Wl,-rpath=//usr/local/lib 
> gpsdecode.o -L. -L/usr/local/lib -lgpsd -lgps -lm
> ./libgpsd.so: undefined reference to `pthread_create'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> scons: *** [gpsdecode] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.
> 
> It worked a while ago on the F-20 box.  (That's how we got far enough to 
> discuss errors from scons check.)

Try pulling head again.  The compilation needs the -pthread option;
I've fixed the build system to supply this.
 
> This error message is followed by a backtrace which isn't helpful.
>   Package ncurses was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>   Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ncurses.pc'
>   to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>   No package 'ncurses' found
> 
> You might tweak that to suggest looking in build.txt and putting a paragraph 
> in there about needing to install ncurses-devel on Fedora.

Alas, I don't control that error message; it's generated deep inside 
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>