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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-10-25 03:01:40 -0400
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-10-25 03:01:40 -0400
commit52862f35807749a27ff26527d6917c0d2960a50f (patch)
tree21943b498531329a8fbc12ec97f2f0164d91bec7 /INSTALL
parent2ac8c0a5378e39768479a456e9cac54684f0af5d (diff)
downloadgpsd-52862f35807749a27ff26527d6917c0d2960a50f.tar.gz
Address the -ltinfo problem.
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@@ -78,12 +78,16 @@ various additional features have additional prerequisites:
|pthreads library | support for PPS timekeeping on serial GPSes
|DBUS | gpsd will issue DBUS notifications
|ncurses | a test client and the GPS monitor depend on this
+|libtinfo5 | shared low-level terminfo library (see below)
|libusb-1.0.x or later | better USB device discovery
|Qt + qmake | libQgpsmm depends on this
|python2.6+ | required for various clients and utilities
|pgtk-2/cairo bindings | the main test client, xgps, needs this
|==========================================================================
+Some ncurses packages comntain the terminfo library; some break it out
+seperately as libtinfo5 or libtinfo.
+
The Python code in GPSD is actually compatible back to Python 2.4 except that
you need either the json library module from 2.6 or the functionally
equivalent simplejson backport.