[gpsd-dev] Solaris x86 (64-bit) 11.2 - "scons check" fails early on in initialization

[Frank Nicholas]

Just for kicks, I tried ‘scons check’ on my Solaris server (current gpsd clone).  Scons dies, early on, I believe because it doesn’t detect my Solaris box as posix, cygwin, or darwin, in this part of “SConstruct”:

def VersionedSharedLibrary(env, libname, version, lib_objs=[], parse_flags=[]):

    platform = env.subst('$PLATFORM')

    shlib_pre_action = None

    shlib_suffix = env.subst('$SHLIBSUFFIX')

    shlib_post_action = None

    shlink_flags = SCons.Util.CLVar(env.subst('$SHLINKFLAGS'))

    if platform == 'posix':

        ilib_suffix = shlib_suffix + '.' + version

        (major, age, revision) = version.split(".")

        soname = "lib" + libname + shlib_suffix + "." + major

        shlink_flags += [ '-Wl,-Bsymbolic', '-Wl,-soname=%s' % soname ]

    elif platform == 'cygwin':

        ilib_suffix = shlib_suffix

        shlink_flags += [ '-Wl,-Bsymbolic',

                          '-Wl,--out-implib,${TARGET.base}.a' ]

    elif platform == 'darwin':

        ilib_suffix = '.' + version + shlib_suffix

        shlink_flags += [ '-current_version', '%s' % version,

                          '-compatibility_version', '%s' % version,

                          '-undefined', 'dynamic_lookup' ]

    ilib = env.SharedLibrary(libname,lib_objs,

                            SHLIBSUFFIX=ilib_suffix,

                            SHLINKFLAGS=shlink_flags, parse_flags=parse_flags)

The error output is below:

qt = False (default True): build QT bindings

UnboundLocalError: local variable 'ilib_suffix' referenced before assignment:

  File "/root/gpsd/SConstruct", line 980:

    parse_flags=dbus_libs + rtlibs)

  File "/root/gpsd/SConstruct", line 970:

    parse_flags=parse_flags)

  File "/root/gpsd/SConstruct", line 911:

    SHLIBSUFFIX=ilib_suffix,

address@hidden gpsd # 

Without detecting one of the three in the “if/elif” statements, “ilib_suffix” is undefined/uninitialized in the last statement.

I’m pretty sure Solaris is POSIX compliant…

If Solaris x86 matters to gpsd, I’m willing to provide either access to my box or troubleshoot with guidance from the dev group.