[Buildroot] [gpsd-users] Getting ready to ship 3.8

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Eric S. Raymond,

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:36:11 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> >  * First issue is that we still support Python 2.5 based hosts,
> > while the current SCons based gpsd build system makes some
> > assumption about Python 2.6 being available. This requires three
> > patches:
> > 
> >    http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/package/gpsd/gpsd-01-sconstruct-python-2.5-compat.patch
> >    http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/package/gpsd/gpsd-04-sconstruct-python-2.5-compat-distro-check.patch
> >    http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/package/gpsd/gpsd-05-fix-leapsecond-script-python2.5.patch
> 
> I have merged these.

Great, thanks! Looking forward to bump our gpsd version to 3.8 and get
rid of those patches.

> >  * Second issue is that gpsd hardcodes a runtime library path
> > (RPATH) in its libraries, which when cross-compiling means that
> > paths of the build machine are leaked into the target machine. So
> > we have a simple patch that disables the RPATH usage:
> > 
> >    http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/package/gpsd/gpsd-02-sconstruct-disable-rpath.patch
> 
> This, absolutely not.  Investigate setting chrpath=no.

Indeed, will have a look. Thanks!

Best regards,

Thomas
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