[Xastir-dev] [Patch] Fix for gpsman shapefile output

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 06:33:46AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <joe at lightningflash.net> flavor, containing:
> J. Lance Cotton wrote:
>> I found after updating to Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy-gibbon) that the gpsman 
>> didn't
>> use the same output format for shapefiles. Attached is a patch.
>> I haven't tested to see if this command structure applies to older 
>> versions
>> of gpsman.
> 
> The patch sent earlier required gpsman >= 6.1, according to the gpsman 
> author.

I find that my newly upgraded BSD system has the same issue --- it uses
gpsman 6.3.2

Fortunately, gpsman does have a command line option to print the version string:
  gpsman show version
Unfortunately, like gv, using that option requires one to have an X display
running, and worse, it pops up a window for a second while it's running.  The 
end result, though, is that if you run that command it prints out the version 
number to stdout.  But only if you can open X client windows from your command 
line.

We have some hacks in configure.ac and its macros to deal with that annoyance
for gv, so we could kludge something for gpsman, too.  We could then set a
compiler macro in an analogous manner.

I have NO time to do xastir work this month (maybe not even the rest of the 
year), so I can't fix configure to do this any time soon.  If someone were to 
have time, the place to look for the way to solve this problem would be to 
look at how gv is handled in configure.ac and acinclude.m4, then do something 
similar.

Otherwise, one just has to apply the patch by hand if one has gpsman version
>= 6.1

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