[SOLVED] gpsd slackbuild fails on 14.1

enine · 11-01-2017, 08:05 PM

Title should have said 14.2

I downloaded the slackbuild for 14.2 and found it wanted scons so I found and built that but still get an error:

Code:

gpsd-3.17/packaging/rpm/gpsd.spec
chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink './contrib/gps'
chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink './devtools/gps'
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
  File "/tmp/SBo/gpsd-3.17/SConstruct", line 378

    print msg

            ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

55020 · 11-01-2017, 08:15 PM

Meh. If you're on 14.1, use the 14.1 SlackBuild and the 14.1 version of gpsd.

enine · 11-01-2017, 08:33 PM

Typo in title, I'm on 14.2. I got a search hit in the slackbuilds -current sticky post that talks about scons not being needed but if so why did the slackbuild stop saying its missing

55020 · 11-01-2017, 08:45 PM

If you're on 14.2, scons comes with Slackware. There is no need to find it and build it, you should have already had it -- scons-2.4.1-x86_64-1 -- and if you've ended up with some homebrew scons, ditch it and get the real thing. And if the reason you didn't have scons is because you don't have a full installation... well, I hope you know the story by now.

enine · 11-01-2017, 09:18 PM

ok, thats odd because I'm on a full install of 14.2
Thats strange, wonder where my scons package went, I always just do the full install.
sure enough I reinstalled scons and it works fine.