Re: failure to build gpsd on aarch64 system.

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Bart!

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:26:06 -0400
Bart Nielsen <bart.nielsen@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is mostly a vanilla 64 bit installl of a raspbian system.  I’ve
> added a few packages based on the suggestions in abuild.doc

Raspbian nkeeps changing package names.  If you figure out which package
is not Python Cairo, let us know.  Maybe python3-gi-cairo?

> This code has always had issues with matplotlib, which I don’t
> understand.

What code?  gpsd works fine with matplotlib.

>  apt install python3-matplotlib

That must have installed all the proper dependencies.

> cp gpsd-3.25/example_aiogps.py tmp.py; /usr/bin/python -tt -m
> py_compile tmp.py; File "tmp.py", line 23
>     async def get_gps_updates(gpsd: gps.aiogps.aiogps) -> None:
>             ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

What version python? (/usr/bin/python -V).  That works for me.  Are
you using a really old Python?  That is an optional file, you can ignore
that error.

> scons: building terminated because of errors.
> WARNING: gpsplot is missing required runtime module matplotlib
> WARNING: xgps and xgpsspeed are missing runtime dependencies

Earlier it should have told you what you are still missing.

Can you sent the entire build log?

RGDS
GARY
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703
        gem@rellim.com  Tel:+1 541 382 8588

            Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas?
    "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." - Lord Kelvin

pgpBtMYpkAf1D.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature