[Xastir] time line of events up to getting xastir to use imagemagick and ax25 with no complaints

[vic]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:11 am, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

Curt:  

In a nutshell
Mandrake 9.0

The problem only showed up when I downloaded new source tree on new operating 
system and AFTER compiled and running as plain vanilla version.  No support 
libraries.

then:

got, compiled ax25: reconfigured and compiled xastir     
ax25 worked fine.

got rpm of imagick and devel stuff as required, installed it, reconfigured and 
compiled xastir
imagick and ax25 nowork

rpm -e imagemagic and the devel stuff
ax25 worked

rpm -Uvh imagick plus devel stuff
imagick and ax25 nowork again...configure finds magick-config but complains it 
cannot find the libs,,,,i checked and they are there in the proper place and 
path

rename magic-config to magick-config-old and set up xasir again
ax25 worked , imagemagick nowork.

rename magick-config-old back to orginal name set up xastir again
ax25 and imagick nowork

deleted everything related to imagick
set imagick by sources and set up xastir again
ax25 and imagick nowork again

deleted everything of imagick again, using the correct methods, make 
uninstall, rpm -e. ,,,etc.
I still had not touched the ax25 libs etc, at all ,  like I was doing with 
imagick
At several points up to this ,,, I had seen configure complain about not 
seeing ImageMagic lib,,, but they where there in plain sight in the path and 
in the proper dir.

At this point I deleted, uninstalled imagemagick whichever way was appropiate 
for the programs and libs installed 

I left ax25 stuff alone

downloaded a src rpm of imagemagick for rehat

rebuilt the rpm and installed it

display worked

deleted the entire dir of cvs stuff I was using which I had updated just a few 
hours before

fetdhed the cvs source from scratch

did the whole bit to build xastir

everything worked..

This is probably more than you want or needed to know, but I find it 
interesting that installing imagemagick before downloading a totally fresh 
source tree for xastir, did the trick... not just a cvs update but totally 
new...

If anybody wants a guina pig to trace this down further, let me know, be glad 
to wipe it all out and try for repeatabily on failures as well as successfull 
installs..It's up to the programmers...I do not know the overall stratigy in 
development so work arounds like this may be okay for awhile..

Regards, Victor




> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, vic wrote:
> > Following Mr Sytsma's advice, I deleted the entire xastir source tree and
> > downloaded from cvs fresh AFTER rebuilding and installing ImageMagick
> > from sourcess  (5.4.8)  from a src.rpm. 9:30 edt 04-029-03
> >
> > ran bootstrap.sh
> > ran configure
> > SUPRISE
> > it's all there now!! imagick and ax25
> > I see that the compile went fine also, will make install next...
> >
> > Thanks for the help..!!
> > Yep, Xastir works fine again.
> >
> > ps.  that is weird.... I wonder what is really going on here...
>
> Makes no sense to me.  I'll have to go back through your messages to
> see what version of OS and what version of Xastir you're running.
>
> Here's what should happen with the latest stuff:  If you start with
> either "bootstrap.sh" or "configure" and follow the instructions
> through, it will reconfigure for whatever libraries you currently
> have installed (that it can find).

multiple times...