Re: [Hamlib-developer] Hamlib version for the upcoming WSJT-X v3.0.0-rc1

[Brian M. <bd...@fe...>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:16:27 +0100
Brian Morrison via Hamlib-developer
<ham...@li...> wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:50:28 -0500
> Nate Bargmann <n0...@n0...> wrote:
> 
> > I think the run-time stability of 4.7~git is as good as any prior
> > release right now and has received a lot of fixes over the past
> > couple of months.  As we'd like to release 4.7.0 sometime in the
> > next couple of months or so, the ABI will not change so when it is
> > released, current versions of applications should work with the
> > resulting .so/.DLL.  
> 
> Hi Nate
> 
> I have just tried to get the Fedora hamlib.spec file to build the
> current hamlib-4.7~git and towards the end of the process I see this:
> 
> make  check-TESTS
> make[2]: Entering directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/c++'
> make[3]: Entering directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/c++'
> PASS: testcpp
> ============================================================================
> Testsuite summary for Hamlib 4.7~git
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 1 # PASS:  1 # SKIP:  0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  0
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
> ============================================================================
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/c++'
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/c++'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/c++'
> Making check in bindings make[1]: Entering directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> make  check-am make[2]: Entering directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> make  -f Hamlib-pl.mk all make[3]: Entering directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> "/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- Hamlib.bs
> blib/arch/auto/Hamlib/Hamlib.bs 644 make[3]: Leaving directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> make  check-local make[3]: Entering directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> make  -f Hamlib-pl.mk all make[4]: Entering directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> "/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- Hamlib.bs
> blib/arch/auto/Hamlib/Hamlib.bs 644 make[4]: Leaving directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../src/.libs perl ../bindings/perltest.pl Perl
> 5.040003 test, version: Hamlib 4.7~git
> 
> get_conf:		path = "/dev/Rig", retry = 50
> freq:			14266000
> get_mode:		FM
> width:			15000
> get_vfo:		VFOA
> Backend copyright:	LGPL
> Model:			Dummy
> Manufacturer:		Hamlib
> Backend version:	20240709.0
> get_info:		Nothing much (dummy)
> VOX delay:		0
> VOX delay:		5
> strength:		-40
> get_channel status:	0 = rig_setting2idx called
> VFO:			MainA, 14266000
> Attenuators:		10 20 30 0 0 0 0 0
> 
> Sending Morse, '73'
> 
> Sending raw string
> 
> Some static functions:
> Loc1:		IN98XC ->   -0.0417,   48.1042-> IN98XC
> Loc1:		DM33DX -> -113.7083,   33.9792-> DM33DX
> Distance:	8765.814 km, azimuth 309.00, long path: 31266.186 km
> Longitude:	  -0.0417,    0°  2' 29" W	recoded:   -0.0414
> Latitude:	  48.1042,   48°  6' 15" N	recoded:   48.1042
> PYTHONPATH=.:./.libs \
> 	/usr/bin/pytest --capture=no ./
> =========================================================== test
> session starts
> ============================================================ platform
> linux -- Python 3.13.7, pytest-8.3.4, pluggy-1.5.0 rootdir:
> /home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings
> plugins: anyio-4.8.0, hypothesis-6.123.0 collected 19 items
>                                                                                                               
> 
> python/test_Hamlib_Amp_class.py ..
> python/test_Hamlib_Rig_class.py ..
> python/test_Hamlib_Rot_class.py ..
> python/test_Hamlib_class.py ..
> python/test_amp.py ...
> python/test_rig.py ....
> python/test_rot.py ...
> python/test_startup.py .
> 
> ============================================================ 19
> passed in 2.87s
> ============================================================ cp
> ./pkgIndex.tcl ./.libs TCLLIBPATH=./.libs tclsh ./tcltest.tcl
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:1183: check-tcl] Segmentation fault (core
> dumped) make[3]: Leaving directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:947: check-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving
> directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:949: check] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/home/bdm/rpmbuild/BUILD/hamlib-4.7_git-build/hamlib-4.7~git/bindings'
> make: *** [Makefile:672: check-recursive] Error 1 error: Bad exit
> status from /home/bdm/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.JwA7ey (%check)
> 
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /home/bdm/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.JwA7ey
> (%check)
> 
> As you can see this is in the make check-TESTS section of the .spec
> file however all of this was working with previous 4.7~git snapshots.
> 
> Anything that makes any sense to you?
> 
> I may have another try as the latest Fedora 42 src rpm might work
> better.
> 

And indeed the same error if I base the build on the:

hamlib-4.6.4-1.fc42.src.rpm

downloaded from Fedora koji, I suppose I had better ask Richard Shaw as
he's the packager.

-- 

Brian  G8SEZ