Re: [gpsd-dev] [gpsd-users] Warnings from 32 bit FreeBSD

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:20:04 -0400
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:

> >> But we have a workaround for the problem of scons not being as good
> >> autotools :-)  
> >
> > Once again an unsubstantiated opinion. :-)  
> 
> We all have those, in good fun.  In this case, it's not really an
> opinion: scons is failing to produce a tarball because it doesn't
> adequately deal with portability issues.

Once again, we'll have to agree to disagree on that.

From my rececnt work in SConstruct I believe, unproven, that scons can
deal just fine with making tar balls on all supported OS.  It is the
gpsd SConstruct that is broken. gpsd does it by hand instead of using
the scons built-ins.  There is now a documented workaround. So not a
current issue.

> automake is known to build
> tarballs pretty much everywhere.

Yeah, it is just all the other stuff that is broken with autotools.

> (I realize there are multiple points
> of comparison and this is just one of them.)

Yup.  gps, and many other packages gave up on autotools a long time ago.

For good reasons.

A lot of the gpsd scons bugs are our own fault.  But, maybe something like
meson would be better.  Topic for another day.

RGDS
GARY
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