Rob wrote:
Paul <tik-...@bodosom.net> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Sander Smeenk <ssme...@freshdot.net>
wrote:
But i'm quite sure driver 22 is compiled in the binary i'm running.
Almost certainly not. Debian derived distos using upstream ntp don't have
PPS support. However it's fairly trivial to compile and if you use the
reference package you'll get the latest release and it will install with
the distro version. The only glitch is timepps.h since they choose not to
include it in the reference source release. It's in the pps-tools
repository at GitHub.
It is even sufficient to install pps-tools (which includes the timepps.h)
and then fetch and recompile ntpd from the source package.
There is only ONE mistake in the package: they forgot to include pps-tools
als a build dependency.
But apparently it can take years to fix a bug like that.
The package maintainers are to blame here, and the question is whether
they *want* to fix it if they think the timepps.h should be included in
the NTP source code.
This brings up the question what could happen if *both* the NTP package
and the pps-tools (is this a package under Debian?) come with an
instance of timepps.h, which may eventually be different versions.
Martin
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