[Xastir] Mac OS X Compiling Question

[N1OFZ]

> On Dec 1, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
>> Perhaps some of the Mac-heads who are developers can squeeze those
>> tests into the autoconf stuff.  Any takers?
>
On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Jason Winningham wrote:
> Just remember there are multiple variants; some stuff could be Fink, 
> Darwinports, or in the standard location (/usr/local, etc).
>
> I've had the best success building from source _without_ the help of 
> fink or darwinports.  Using information from N1OFZ's web page got me 
> over the hump with shapelib support, but I used standard source 
> tarball ./configure and make for everything else.

The advantage of fink is that the non *nix user can easily install 
(through a gui) all the needed supporting applications/libraries 
without having to compile anything.  Another advantage with the way 
fink installs is that I can tar up the whole /sw directory and move it 
to another machine, untar it and xastir runs (assuming the other 
machine also has X11 installed).  I actually make /sw nfs mountable on 
all my workstations .  That way I only have to maintain (update) xastir 
in one place.

As to Curt's suggestion, I guess a simple test or two to make sure X11 
and X11 dev wouldn't be too hard to check for.  As a matter of fact it 
is as easy as checking /Library/Receipts/ for  the existence of 
X11SDK.pkg and X11User.pkg.

Dana
N1OFZ