Re: testing status

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:13:57 -0500
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:

> With forcing off gpsmm and qt, tests passed.

Both work for me.  Gentoo stable and unstable.

> I patched vesion from 3.19.1~dev to 3.19.90

Early on my list after release to make that a lot easier.

> I ran the new gpsd, and got the following.  I think this is new, but I
> didn't see anything about shm in NEWS, and I'm not really sure if it
> happened before or not.   I wonder if IPC_CREAT should be specified
> here, but I haven't looked at the sources here.
> 
> gpsd:ERROR: shmget(0x47505344, 24024, 0666) for SHM export failed:
> Invalid argument

I only get that when I try to run gpsd as a normal user.  Did you
forget to start as root?

Prolly needs to be documented.

After release a section on "Common ERROR/WARNING messages" should
be started.

> gpsprof (100 samples) works fine.  A nit is placement of the RCC
> 266-01 labels, but it seems improved from 3.19.

Moving labels arounnd in gnuplot is a PITA.  Also very
"terminal" and font dependent.  Patches welcome.

> So modulo gpsmss/qt building with libraries not in /usr,

What is that?

> and perhaps the above shmget error message, things seem fine.

Good.

RGDS
GARY
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