Re: Building gpsd on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Charles!

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 16:15:23 -0600
Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

> > So your PYTHONPATH should include:
> >     /usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages/
> >   
> > > root@iorich:~/versioned/gpsd# echo $PYTHONPATH    
> > 
> > But it does not.
> >   
> > > root@iorich:~/versioned/gpsd# export [...]    
> > 
> > You should put that somewhere so you do not have to do that on every
> > login.  
> 
> Yup. However, it can get messy.

Not messy on Gentoo...

> On a machine, again a fresh Bullseye install, I have:
> 
> root@freeman:~# ll -d /usr/local/lib/pytho*
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 28 10:15 /usr/local/lib/python3.9/
> root@freeman:~# 

So you have installed gpsd for Python 3.9.  Or looking at it the
other way, Python 39 was active when you installed gpsd.

> On iorich, where I've built gpsd, I have:
> 
> root@iorich:~/versioned/gpsd# ll -d /usr/local/lib/pytho*
> drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 4096 Oct  5 11:06 /usr/local/lib/python2.7
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Oct  5 11:56 /usr/local/lib/python3
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Aug 27 16:06 /usr/local/lib/python3.9

I have similar, and more.  Each of those was the results of installing
gpsd while running python 2.7, and python 3.9.  The python3 is likely a link
to python3.9

> Judging by the date, python2.7 and python3 were created in the process
> of building and installing gpsd.

Yup.  In Gentoo I can have all those Pythons installed at the same time.
You need to manually remove any old directories for no longer installed
Pythons.

> So I think I will leave that to the user to figure out, with a
> reminder.

Nothing to figure out.

> > > I will let my changes to build.adoc sit overnight, take another
> > > look, and ship it tomorrow.    
> > 
> > Cool.  I used to think Debian was a stable distro...  
> 
> Oh, it is. Very stable. Except about every two years when the upgrade
> tsunami hits.

Then how come the gpsd Debian jobs break every few weeks due to Debian
changes?  I find changing the package nemes every two years to be
horrible,

We do not share the same definition of "stable".

RGDS
GARY
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