Re: [gpsd-dev] withdrawal of libgpsd, gpsd.h?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:32:14 -0400
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:

> (I've been away from gpsd for a long time.)

Welcome back!

> I'm updating pkgsrc from 2.96 (!) to 3.18.  This is mostly
> straightforward, but I have one significant question.

Please use 3.18.1.  3.18 did not work on some systems.

> Compared to the set of files installed before, I see that the
> following are not installed:

Hmm, not sure whatn that changed.

>   include/gpsd.h
>   lib/libgpsd.la

These two are internal, and should not be installed.

Clients use include/gps.h and lib/libgps.so

>   lib/pkgconfig/libgpsd.pc

I've never really understood pkgconfig, but I don't think that file
ever existed.  Maybe you mean libgps.pc?

>   man/man3/libgpsd.3

Since libgpsd is for internal use, no point to a man page.  Never
been one that I remember.  Maybe you mean libgps.3?

> I looked at NEWS, and I don't see any mention of the withdrawal;

Nothing to withdraw, they should never exist outside of the build.

> (And, gpsd 3.18 runs on NetBSD/8 amd64 with one of these:
>   umodem0: u-blox AG - www.u-blox.com (0x1546) u-blox GNSS receiver
> (0x1a8), rev 1.10/3.01, addr 7, iclass 2/2 using xgps, but the NTP
> shm mechanism isn't working.  I'll ask again if I can't debug it.)

Not many BSD folks here.  Have at it.

RGDS
GARY
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