Re: [gpsd-dev] Build fail...

[Eric S. Raymond]

address@hidden <address@hidden>:
> git master build fail on an Ubuntu 12.04 system with
> 
> scons: done reading SConscript files.
> scons: Building targets ...
> substituter(["jsongen.py"], ["jsongen.py.in"])
> scons: *** [jsongen.py] TypeError : expected a character buffer object
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Action.py", line 1062, in execute
>     result = self.execfunction(target=target, source=rsources, env=env)
>   File "/home/ar/gpsd/gpsd/SConstruct", line 1226, in substituter
>     content = content.replace(s, t)
> TypeError: expected a character buffer object
> scons: building terminated because of errors.

Strange.  It's working here.  What commit?

Also, when you report build breakage please always specifyu your
config options.

What was the last version that built correctly for you?
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>