Thanks for the quick response. [googling]: pkgsrc is a netbsd thing? I am running fedora 32 here (yum/dnf) which ships an older version of gpsd (v3.19). I need some recent changes in git master, so I am hoping to build/install from source here. scons install doesn't seem to install libgps.a. I suppose if I stopped and thought, I could cp things manually into proper locations so they are there, but I'd like a more general purpose approach, especially if I did something wrong. Maybe for now I'll just use the raw socket interface on port 2947. I just need to read the message stream and don't need to do anything fancy or two-way.
Thanks,
Curt.