Re: [gpsd-dev] Fw: ntpsec | Pipeline #54712342 has failed for master | a94224fd

[Fred Wright]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> I changed your osx_lib_tool code again.  For scons 3.0.5 compatibility.
> I think this time it is correct.  Please check it out.

It works for now, though storing config-related settings in global 
variables instead of environment variables is incompatible with 
cross-building.  Admittedly, anything relying on CheckProg() is likely to 
have cross-building issues, but storing the results improperly makes it 
worse.

> NTPsec is having an OSX bug.  Maybe similar to your gpsd bug?  Does
> the below ring any bells?

No, it's unrelated.  The osx_lib_tool thing has to do with getting the 
proper absolute paths into the shared libraries, so that programs that 
link against them know where to find them at runtime.  It doesn't affect 
any of the bundled programs, since they're all statically linked.

The *right* place for that is probably SCons, since it's the sort of 
platform-specific detail that it's supposed to take care of for you.

MacPorts added a version of that a while back, once someone discovered 
that (dynamically) linking their own program against libgps didn't work. 
But it's better to put it here, instead of relying on MacPorts to clean up 
after it.


I bisected the ntpsec failure to 9eae92b6.

Fred Wright