Re: [gpsd-users] Build instructions

[Jon Schlueter]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Tomalak Geret'kal <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/04/2012 21:36, Roy Barkas wrote:
>>
>> Eric and friends;
>>
>> Would it be possible for someone to put together build instructions for
>> GPSD and the clients that are at an appropriate level for people who are not
>> Linux build veterans?
>>
>> There are many things I have mastered in life but building Linux
>> executables from source using specialised tools isn't one of them yet.
>>
>> The only instructions I have found (the file included with the source)
>> are, in my opinion, not clear or complete.  There are, I suspect, many of us
>> who use gpsd and need to build a copy for our installation but who are not
>> Linux code building experts.

Simplified

git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/gpsd.git
cd gpsd
scons
sudo scons install

This assumes you have prereqs for compiling installed, if not ask on
here or the IRC channel and we can help you get the build environment
up and running

Jon