[Xastir] ImageMagick and ./configure

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, vic wrote:

> This is strange......
> I cannot get imagemagick to work with xastir
> Tried 4 different age or versions of (imagemagick and imagemagick-devel) 
> packages and also from source tgz's.
> 
> That is bad enough, BUT what is much worse, having ax25 compiled from sources, 
> ( libs, tools, apps) and installed and working great,,,,when running 
> ./configure on xastir the executable "ImageMagick-config" in /usr/bin somehow 
> interfers with configure, or the other way around and blows out the ax25 
> stuff.
> 
> In other words ,  when ./configure finds ImageMagick-config file and says 
> "yes",,, in the next few lines ./configure says ax25_config_load_ports in 
> -Lax25... no !!!!
> 
> remove, rename, make unexecutable the file ImageMagick-config and not do 
> anything else to any file in the system, then  ax25_config_load_ports in 
> -Lax25... yes   ax25 then works in the compiled version. otherwise ax25 is'nt 
> even compiled into xastir..
> 
> This is 100% reproducable on my system ....
> 
> Running  Mandrake 9.0
> 
> Anybody have any hints to both problems???

I'm not a Mandrake user, so can't comment on the ImageMagick
problem.

With respect to the configure problem, Jack or Chuck might want to
take a look at that problem.


> Also on the processer usage, it's in the main thread, as far as I can tell and 
> the internet links is 52k dialup with the map zoomed in to where the 10 mile 
> range marker shows up....

This is probably the setup where you get 1000's of stations and
Xastir spends a large portion of its time looking up the stations in
the station linked-list to update or display them, instead of doing
real work or sleeping.

Xastir-2 will fix this little problem by removing the linked-list
and switching to a database back-end.  That means it's not worth
fixing right now, if that's the type of problem that you're having.
Make sense?

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