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@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ + Here are the steps for installing gpsd and verifying its performance: 0. gpsd has a core set of prerequisites that are required for any @@ -15,6 +16,11 @@ non-C99 feature: anonymous unions. We could eliminate these, but the cost would be source-level interface breakage if we have to move structure members in and out of unions. +GPSD is normally built and tested with GCC. The shared-memory +interface relies on one GCCism, but the code is otherwise pretty +compiler-agnostic. It is reported that clang produces a gpsd that +passes all regression tests. + You will need Python 2.6 or 2.4+ & simplejson. The Python code in GPSD is 2.4-compatible except that you need either the json library module from 2.6 or the functionally equivalent simplejson backport. |