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

[Rich Wales]

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.

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

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.

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

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