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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-04-11 17:38:50 -0400
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-04-11 17:38:50 -0400
commit84a44fc59b8b3a232542b00ee455646d0626e6ef (patch)
treeb4f9cf2d6b17a3ee2ce7a9b865b7b68f54709c25 /INSTALL
parente4fb88cfb9f90ba663e7cf44d3f2722833d31149 (diff)
downloadgpsd-84a44fc59b8b3a232542b00ee455646d0626e6ef.tar.gz
Give up on configure-like options, return to scons-style persistent variables.
There was lots of user demand for *persistent* configuration variables. While it is theoretically possible that I could have made this work with the configure-like options, the code would have beenn a fragile kluge. So, fall back in scons practive for command-line cinfiguration variables.
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@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ and with 0660 permissions.
When gpsd drops privileges, its default is to set uid to 'nobody' and
group to the owning group of the prototype device (the configure
-option --enable-gpsd-user=foo will cause gpsd to change to 'foo'
+option gpsd-user=foo will cause gpsd to change to 'foo'
instead).
If your system has the Linux hotplug facility installed you can skip
@@ -173,11 +173,11 @@ hardware already supported.
12. Note for small embedded systems and those without threading. It is
possible to build gpsd without thread support if you configure with
---disable-pps. You'll lose support for updating the clock from PPS pulses.
+pps=no. You'll lose support for updating the clock from PPS pulses.
13. Note for systems using DBUS: gpsd includes support for shipping fixes
as DBUS notifications, but it is not compiled in by default. Configure
-with the option "--enable-dbus" to get it working.
+with the option "dbus=yes" to get it working.
14. The distribution includes a PHP script that you can use to
generate a PHP status page for your GPS. You will need php and php-gd
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ need a C++ compiler supported by Qt (tested on GCC 4.4.0/mingw on
Windows and GCC 4.1.2 on linux).
Specifically for linux: You can specify the installation prefix by
-running "scons --prefix=<installation_root>". Default value is
+running "scons prefix=<installation_root>". Default value is
"/usr/local".
Please refer to Qt's documentation at