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| author | Fred Wright <fw@fwright.net> | 2016-03-15 15:24:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2016-03-15 18:55:01 -0400 |
| commit | 075d870a42e12d52bf1b55f70ae3ad7962ff0ebb (patch) | |
| tree | 68e0e027febb666edad0958d0b597929617a5e5b /build.txt | |
| parent | 302501bea7de3cc12147ace2d4432b71b866457e (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-075d870a42e12d52bf1b55f70ae3ad7962ff0ebb.tar.gz | |
Minor doc fixes, and paragraph about parallel builds/tests.
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Necessary components for any build: |scons | for executing the build recipe |============================================================================ -Note: There must be a Python 2 interpreter named 'python' in your path, +Note: There must be a Python 2 interpreter named 'python2' in your path, or the regression tests will fail. On some systems you might need to arrange this by putting symlink in a local directory on $PATH. @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ extensions. Usually these are called "python" and "python-dev". You will know you are missing the latter if your compilation fails because of a missing Python.h. -The xgps test client requires the following Python extensions: +The xgps and xgpsspeed test clients require the following Python extensions: |============================================================================ |gobject | GNOME object introspection library @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ various additional capabilities and extensions: |C++ compiler | allows building libgpsmm C++ wrapper for client library |Qt 4.53+ | allows building libQgpsmm C++ wrapper for client library |libcap | Capabilities library, allows 1PPS support under Linux -|curses | curses screen-painting library, allows building cgps +|(n)curses | curses screen-painting library, used by cgps and gpsmon |============================================================================ If you have libusb-1.0.0 or later, the GPSD build will autodetect @@ -361,9 +361,16 @@ than would ever occur in production. If you get regression-test failures that aren't repeatable and look like the test framework is sporadically failing to feed the last line or two of test loads, try using the slow=yes option with scons check. If that fails, try -increasing the delay constants in gps/fake.py. If you have to do this, +increasing the delay value via the WRITE_PAD environment variable +(above the value reported in the test output). If you have to do this, please report your experience to the GPSD maintainers. +Both the builds and the tests are highly parallelizable via the scons +-j option, which can gain a substantial speedup on a multicore machine. +Because the output from the various jobs is interleaved, it may be more +difficult to understand error results with multiple jobs. In that event, +simply rerun without the -j option for more straightforward output. + For instructions on how to live-test the software, see the file INSTALL. == Reverting to a clean state == |