Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.11 release is imminent

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 22.05.2014 12:33, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>:
> > On some arches we have regression test failures:
> >
> > armel test/daemon/GPSmap-76S.log.chk
> > kfreebsd-i386 test/daemon/bt451.log.chk
> > mips test/daemon/et-332.log.chk
> > powerpc ./test/sample.aivdm.chk
> > ppc64 ./test/sample.aivdm.chk
> > s390x test/daemon/haicom-305N.log.chk
> > sparc ./test/sample.aivdm.chk
> >
> > Compard with 3.9, the aivdm issues are still the same, but the other 
> > failures
> > are new.
> > Logs are linked at
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=gpsd
> > in the result column.
>
> I've solved one group of these, a minor build problem on the Hurd.

so now we have two workarounds for that -

commit f2753b6728b1857fa78cc0695cce7dc819db5c51
Author: Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Jan 27 22:11:20 2014 +0100

    Make gpsd build on hurd again.

    IPV6_TCLASS is not defined in socket.h on hurd.

that was mine, which seemed to work, too. Which one should we keep?


> It looks like all the AIVDM failures are in in one place - processing
> of the trailing binary payload in AIS type 6 in structured messages.
> Having stared at the code I now think these regression failures are
> spurious and can be banished by zeroing some storage before the
> packet parse. I've done that.
>
> Please run another set of tests with the repository head version.


will do.



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