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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2013-09-15 10:58:18 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2013-09-15 10:58:53 -0400 |
| commit | 205add74159c5056972932e31ce873e73477dcc8 (patch) | |
| tree | c41fd139b82dca779888368b0b2385e61e736f43 /SConstruct | |
| parent | 7fcba51518353b132796d7712060a298c137bd82 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-205add74159c5056972932e31ce873e73477dcc8.tar.gz | |
Explain the static library better.
Diffstat (limited to 'SConstruct')
| -rw-r--r-- | SConstruct | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -906,8 +906,14 @@ if qt_env: gpslibs = ["-lgps", "-lm"] gpsdlibs = ["-lgpsd"] + usblibs + bluezlibs + gpslibs + caplibs + # We need to be able to make a static client library for ad-hoc testing. -# (None of the normal targets relies on this.) You can use this +# Without this, we can't run regression tests in the build directory +# without either (a) having installed the GPSD shared libraries in system +# space (which requires root) or (b) having either '.' or an absolute +# path in the shared library load path (which is a security hole). +# +# None of the normal targets relies on this library. You can use it # with a build command like # # g++ --static streamtest.cpp libgps.a -lrt -o streamtest |