Re: [gpsd-dev] 3.11 release is imminent

[Eric S. Raymond]

Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>:
> so now we have two workarounds for that -
> 
> commit f2753b6728b1857fa78cc0695cce7dc819db5c51
> Author: Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>
> Date:   Mon Jan 27 22:11:20 2014 +0100
> 
>     Make gpsd build on hurd again.
> 
>     IPV6_TCLASS is not defined in socket.h on hurd.
> 
> that was mine, which seemed to work, too. Which one should we keep?

Yours was better.  I've reverted mine.

> >It looks like all the AIVDM failures are in in one place - processing
> >of the trailing binary payload in AIS type 6 in structured messages.
> >Having stared at the code I now think these regression failures are
> >spurious and can be banished by zeroing some storage before the
> >packet parse. I've done that.
> >
> >Please run another set of tests with the repository head version.
> 
> 
> will do.

My hope is that by reducing the ckuutter drom the (apparently) spurious AIS
failures, the error pattern in the others will make more sense.
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