[Buildroot] Configuring the gpsd package

Gabi Kelemen Gabi.Kelemen at VERIFONE.com
Mon Jan 6 15:42:31 UTC 2014


Hi Baruch,

After doing some more diggings, I found that the reason I don't see the gpsd option in menuconfig, is due to the 2 dependencies BR2_USE_MMU, BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS which I probably don't have.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the same reason that the changes I make to the config.in are not affecting the gpsd_config.h file?

Anyway, I was able to run the gpsd and use the it in spite of probably not having the two dependencies. 
My questions are:
1. What is the purpose of the two dependencies?
2. How come I was able to use the daemon anyway?

Thank you 
Gabi.

-----Original Message-----
From: buildroot-bounces at busybox.net [mailto:buildroot-bounces at busybox.net] On Behalf Of Gabi Kelemen
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 12:30 PM
To: Baruch Siach
Cc: buildroot at busybox.net
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Configuring the gpsd package

Hi Baruch,

Unfortunately I cannot send you my changes because it is not a private file.
I wrote it just like any other source directive.

Regarding the host-scons, I added this package as well so I am able to build the gpsd. (I couldn't build it otherwise).
Again, it is just that I'm unable to make changes to the source gpsd_config.h during build.

Well, I guess I'll have to write a patch for that.......

Gabi

-----Original Message-----
From: Baruch Siach [mailto:baruch at tkos.co.il]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 12:05 PM
To: Gabi Kelemen
Cc: buildroot at busybox.net
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Configuring the gpsd package

Hi Gabi,

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:40:21AM +0000, Gabi Kelemen wrote:
> Yes, I've added it under menu "Hardware handling".

Can you send your changes as a patch?

> Do I need to rebuild the buildroot for this change to take place?

No. Confing.in changes should take place once you restart 'make menuconfig'.

> I was asking regarding the SCONS because at the top of the 
> gpsd_config.h file it says that this file is generated by SCONS.

Of course. host-scons is listed as gpsd dependency, but you don't have host-scons in Buildroot version 2010.11 unfortunately.

baruch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baruch Siach [mailto:baruch at tkos.co.il]
> To: Gabi Kelemen
> Cc: buildroot at busybox.net
>
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 08:21:16AM +0000, Gabi Kelemen wrote:
> > I don't see the gpsd checker box at all.
>
> Then you have a much bigger problem than protocol selection. Have you 
> added the needed 'source' directive in package/Config.in?
>
> > I'm using buildroot version 2010.11.
>
> This is quite old. A lot has changes since then. The level of support 
> you can expect from Buildroot developers will increase significantly 
> if you update to something more recent.
>
> > BTW, does my problem can have anything to do with the SCONS package 
> > needed to build the gpsd?
>
> Probably not. But you are likely to encounter a build failure once you 
> fix you Config.in problem. Installing scons on your host might be 
> enough, though.
>
> baruch

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