From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:09:13 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [gpsd-users] Getting ready to ship 3.8 In-Reply-To: <20121023145349.EFC1940659@snark.thyrsus.com> References: <20121023145349.EFC1940659@snark.thyrsus.com> Message-ID: <20121023170913.7f5d701f@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Eric S. Raymond, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:53:49 -0400 (EDT), Eric S. Raymond wrote: > I'd like to do a point release soon. No one big reason, but we've had > an accumulation of minor fixes, feature additions, and packaging > tweaks that I want to get out the door. > > However, there are two reported segfault errors - Debian bug #689187 > in gpsfake and Savannah bug #37451 in gpsmon - which I haven't been > able to reproduce. They may point at a difficult-to-invoke bug in the > NMEA driver. Due to these, we're currently in state Red. > > The bug reports are here: > > https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?37451 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689187 > > All experienced devs: please try to reproduce these and see > if you can generate any insights. We have recently packaged gpsd 3.7 in Buildroot (an embedded Linux build system that works by cross-compiling software for different architectures), and have faced a number of issues for which we have patches: * 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 * 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 Is there some interest in those patches? If so, I can submit them officially for integration. We are always interested in reducing our patch queues by getting things integrated upstream when possible. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com