[gpsd-users] Problems building gpsd 3.18.1 from source on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[Rich Wales]

The new gpsd CVE allow both remote and local escalation to root. So an ad banner in your browser can then use gpsd to get root. No firewall will help you.

Grrr. :-(

I don't even know what a PPA is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu#Package_Archives

Building from source is trivial the second time you do it.

I'm getting the following error (highlighted in red below).  Any suggestions?

x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -specs=/usr/share/dpkg/no-link.specs -Wl,-z,relro -o gps/packet.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so crc24q-py_3_6_5_final_0.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so driver_greis_checksum-py_3_6_5_final_0.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so driver_rtcm2-py_3_6_5_final_0.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so gpspacket-py_3_6_5_final_0.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so hex-py_3_6_5_final_0.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so isgps-py_3_6_5_final_0.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so os_compat-py_3_6_5_final_0.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so packet-py_3_6_5_final_0.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -L. -lrt
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: error: /usr/share/dpkg/no-link.specs: No such file or directory
scons: *** [gps/packet.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

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