Re: [gpsd-users] Chicken and Egg Problem: cannot find -lgpsd

[Jon Schlueter]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Charles Curley
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a bit of a chicken and egg problem. I just made a fresh Debian
> installation. I then installed scons, git and gcc. I pulled in git
> head. On running scons, I get:
>
> gcc -o gpsd -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib -pthread gpsd.o ntpshm.o
> shmexport.o dbusexport.o -L/usr/local/lib -lrt -lgpsd
> -lgps /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgpsd collect2: ld returned 1 exit
> status scons: *** [gpsd] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.

chrpath is needed to build on a clean system, if it is available scons
will use it and is able to build the app, otherwise scons will fail
with the above.

See line 470 of SConstruct for warning and more info.

Jon