Re: ✘gpsd .23.2~rc1

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

Thanks for the testing!  Not quite ready for ~rc2, but close.

On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:32:40 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:
> 
> > I just bumped the gpsd version in got to 3.23.2~rc1.  There is
> > always more to do on gpsd, but this seems like a good pause point.  
> 
> I have done a first pass of testing, all on NetBSD 9 amd64 with gcc
> 7.4.0.
> 
> Building, testing and distribution creation all work.
> 
> Building the created tarball with pkgsrc works, and tests pass with
> the pkgsrc build.
> 
> With the installed package, gpsd works with a M8030 USB GPS mouse; I
> see sensible content on xgpsd, gpspipe -r and -w, and I see a
> sensible SHM offset in gpsd (ntpd fudge is set up for the wrong gps
> mouse, but it's only 24 ms off, which I interpet as all ok, and yes I
> know about pps but this receiver doesn't do that).
> 
> gpspipe -w to a file and gpsprof -r from that produces a sensible plot
> (given a short time and a mouse antenna indoors not with a ground
> plane).
> 
> I have not tried NTRIP.
> 
> cgps seems to not work; it prints
>   
> {"class":"VERSION","release":"3.23.2~rc1","rev":"3.23.2~rc1","proto_major":3,"proto_minor":15}
> and then just sits there.  I don't really remember if this used to
> work.  (I usually use xgps to look at gpspipe -w to log, for later
> gpsprof, so I don't know if this is new.)
> 
> gpsmon prints VERSION, DEVICES, WATCH and then dumps core, but the
> crash is in curses.  IMHO this should not hold the release (or even
> cause churn to find it); it seems likely it's a local issue with
> curses lib.   But if it crashes for a bunch of other people, that's
> interesting.
> 
> 
> So if gpsmon and cgps work for most others, I'd say this is ok to
> release.
> 
> 
> I'm testing the package build on a NetBSD 9 RPI3, but it's starting to
> build ruby so will report back later.
> 
> 
> I will also kick off a build on netbsd-9 i386.




RGDS
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