Re: [gpsd-users] Problems building gpsd 3.18.1 from source on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Rich!

Please keep track of what you had to do.  I'd like those notes when we
figure this out to spare others these issues.

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 17:15:47 -0800
Rich Wales <address@hidden> wrote:

> > /Ouch. Can you confirm you installed the python-dev and the:
> > "apt-get build-dep gpsd"/  
> 
> I did both of the above.  However, it turns out that the version of
> the *python-dev* package on my (Ubuntu 18.04) system is 2.7.15,
> whereas my Python is 3.6.5 (!!).  There isn't any *python-dev*
> package on my system for Python 3.anything.

This is weird.  I know many people running gpsd on Ubuntu 18.04 with
no issues.  I had an Ubuntu 14 a few months ago, and gpsd was trivial
to compile from source.

> Output of *dpkg-buildflags --dump* :
> 
> CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/sbin=. -fstack-protector-strong
> -Wformat -Werror=format-security
> CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> CXXFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/sbin=.
> -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security
> FCFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/sbin=. -fstack-protector-strong
> FFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/sbin=. -fstack-protector-strong
> GCJFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/sbin=.
> -fstack-protector-strong LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro
> OBJCFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/sbin=.
> -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security
> OBJCXXFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/sbin=.
> -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security

No clue there.

> And when I made an empty */usr/share/dpkg/no-link.specs* file, the
> build ran successfully to completion (!).  Still a mystery what this
> file is really supposed to contain, though.

Scary.  But it worked.

If you can send me a list of the packages you had to install I'll try
to add that to the build.txt.  Plus any other hints you can think
of.

> Answering Lisandro's question:  Yes, I am building as root (in a *sudo
> bash* shell).

You should remove sudo from your system.  It is a security nightmare.

RGDS
GARY
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