Claude, There issues in some cases are wide and various but based primarily around some "byte dropouts" and acknowledgement-of-commands.
As an example, an issue that is currently being investigated relates to acknowledgement of commands (i.e. intermittently 3 bytes returned rather than the expected 5). To quote Mike, he is like 'a dog with a bone' when it comes to understanding and resolving issues. Some issues may just be hardware and may only be possibly resolved by reporting issues to Linux and hardware developers too ! Great technicians and engineers are working on issues.... but working through issues can and does take time especially when you are maintaining generic libraries. If you are having concerns with the FT-8x7 range of radios (and it seems to be limited at this stage to non-Windows builds) then pull Hamlib from the "master" repo at Github rather than the WSJTX-standardised G4WJS distribution that the developers here have mated the release to. It is critical that any issues/concerns be reported via the Hamlib lists. Here are the build scripts needed (based on the INSTALL file packaged in wsjtx.tar) that just worked 100% (after dependencies were resolved for Ubuntu Linux 20.04: For HAMLIB based off the MASTER Hamlib Repo (and for the intent of this forum use this repo ONLY if you are experiencing issues with Hamlib comms) as a test: mkdir ~/hamlib-prefix cd ~/hamlib-prefix git clone https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib.git src <<== Change here cd src <<== There is no "integration" distro to checkout so this is removed ./bootstrap mkdir ../build cd ../build ../src/configure --prefix=$HOME/hamlib-prefix \ --disable-shared --enable-static \ --without-cxx-binding --disable-winradio \ CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections" \ LDFLAGS="-Wl,--gc-sections" make make install-strip For WSJTX based off the SourceForge Repo: mkdir -p ~/wsjtx-prefix/build cd ~/wsjtx-prefix git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx src cd ~/wsjtx-prefix/build cmake -D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/hamlib-prefix -DWSJT_SKIP_MANPAGES=ON -DWSJT_GENERATE_DOCS=OFF ../src cmake --build . sudo cmake --build . --target install Also for the core developers: For the next source release, can the INSTALL files packaged at the top level of the tarball/within the "wsjtx.tar" tarball also be made consistent across the entire package i.e. update/incorporate the changes in the WSJT-X Linux build script shown above - referenced in the TOP LEVEL INSTALL file but not appearing in the INSTALL file packaged in wsjtx.tar? Further to this, can some of the references in these valuable INSTALL documents please also be updated and made consistent with current releases (and PM me back developers if you would like me to assist)? Thanks to all developers, and 73. Steve I VK3VM / VK3SIR -----Original Message----- From: Claude Frantz <claude.fra...@bayern-mail.de> Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2020 6:28 PM To: WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [wsjt-devel] CAT problems with FT817, FT857 and FT897 Hi all, Can anyone here give us a short but precise description of the problems related to the equipment mentioned in the subject, please ? Thanks you ! Best wishes, Claude (DJ0OT) _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
