Re: [gpsd-dev] Git head broken

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> My bet is scons has a bug in it and libgps_core.c should be compiled as C and
> not C++.

That doesn't explain why building with Qt used to work asnd now fails.
 
> I peeked at the SContruct file.  It seems to me this is incorrect:
> 
>     for src in libgps_sources:
>         if src not in 
> ('ais_json.c','json.c','libgps_json.c','rtcm2_json.c','rtcm3_json.c','shared_json.c'):
>             compile_with = qt_env['CXX']
>             compile_flags = qt_flags
>         else:
> 
> Seems to me it should look at the extention, or at least include libgps_core.c

You may be right.  Try it.  I've tried every trick I can think of
(forcing variables, etc.) to reproduce the breakage and I can't induce
it. Thus, I can't verify potential fixes.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>