Re: Building gpsd on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Charles!

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 11:25:44 -0600
Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 15:35:46 -0700
> "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Two python packages have gone away in the transition from Buster
> > > to Bullseye, python-gobject-2-dev and python-cairo-dev. Building
> > > (scons --config=force) seems to work without them.    
> > 
> > They are never required, just needed to run xgps.  So, optional.
> > 
> > My guess is that they got renamed, again.  gentoo avoid this mess by
> > using slotting.  
> 
> They seem to have gone away entirely. Even searching on variants turns
> nothing up. Or I'm not imaginative enough in my variant searching.
> Anyway, once I got xgps working (see below) xgps and xgpsspeed were
> fine.

Ouch.  Those are pretty important packages to a lot of projects.  I can't
believe they just disappeared.  And, since you got xgps working they
must be there somehow.  UNless you have old orphaned packages or a 
pip install.

> > Pretty clear.  You are missing matplotlib.  Required to run gpsplot,
> > But not rewuired to install it.  So, optional.  
> 
> Yeah. The package is now "python3-matplotlib". I will so note.

Someday they will figure out how to slot...

> > > xgps is not working correctly:
> > > 
> > > $ xgps: can't load Python gps libraries -- check PYTHONPATH.
> > > No module named 'gps'    
> > 
> > And did you check your PYTHONPATH?
> >   
> > > It looks like the gps python libraries are installed but:    
> > 
> > Installed where?  Installed in a place in your PYTHONPATH?  
> 
> Installed like so:
> 
> Install file: "gpsd-3.23.2~dev/gps/fake.py" as
> "/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages/gps/fake.py" Install file:
> "gpsd-3.23.2~dev/gps/gps.py" as
> "/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages/gps/gps.py" Install file:
> "gpsd-3.23.2~dev/gps/misc.py" as
> "/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages/gps/misc.py"

Weird.  That violates Python policy...

So your PYTHONPATH should include:
    /usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages/

> root@iorich:~/versioned/gpsd# echo $PYTHONPATH

But it does not.

> root@iorich:~/versioned/gpsd# export [...]

You should put that somewhere so you do not have to do that on every login.

On gentoo you put in /etc/env.c/999local


> root@iorich:~/versioned/gpsd# gpsfake 
> gpsfake: requires at least one> logfile argument.

I suggest this instead:

$ gpsfake -V
gpsfake: Version 3.23.2~dev
# 


> root@iorich:~/versioned/gpsd# xgps
> xgps: host localhost port 2947

Ditto:

$ xgps -V
xgps: Version 3.23.2~dev


> root@iorich:~/versioned/gpsd# 
> 
> Which path I found after looking (again) at the output from the
> installation:

Exactly why it is there.

> Ensure your PYTHONPATH includes /usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages/

> So apparently a package handles the path issue correctly, but
> building locally does not. I will make a note.

This is very standard Python behavior.  By default, a distro Python
ignores user installed packages.

https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONPATH

> I will let my changes to build.adoc sit overnight, take another look,
> and ship it tomorrow.

Cool.  I used to think Debian was a stable distro...

RGDS
GARY
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