[Xastir] Christmas present: Messaging Fixes

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

See what you have for an older bench queen computer hanging around. 
Then, download a copy of the knoppix distribution and play with it until 
you get a bit more comfortable with linux.  Then talk to us... Curt and 
I have slightly different ideas on the "best" distribution.  In the long 
run, the best distro tends to be the one your Linux-elmer is most 
comfortable with, as that way you can get thru problems faster and with 
less work.

Cleansing the computer world of Windows is an important mission!

Merry Christmas
gerry n5jxs

Curt Mills wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, James Ewen wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Did any errors occur?  Check your "make.log" file to see.
>>
>>There are 738 lines in my make.log. Of those, I can find only a few that
>>look like they MAY be errors.
>>
>>I have the messages about rtree, that I indicated in a previous message.
>>Whether they are errors, or simply more verbose output, I don't know.
>>
>>I have a warning about aclocal: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_FT2
>>Configure complains about a missing script.
>>Gcc complains about unrecognized option '-no-undefined' a couple times
>>
>>Are warnings errors, or are they simply warnings?
>>
>>I can see why configure is complaining. I have two user names on Cygwin, one
>>was picked up from Windows 'James Ewen' and a second 'james'
>>
>>Through most of the make.log, the directory name is quoted, and the space in
>>'James Ewen' doesn't cause a problem. The section where configure is having
>>a problem, there are no quotes, so Cygwin has a problem with the space in
>>the user name.
> 
> 
> That's a known problem.  It's talked about in the 2nd paragraph of
> the README.win32 file.  Can't you just log in as "james" to
> compile/run Xastir?
> 
> 
> 
>>How can I change the user name to one that is more compatible with *nix?
> 
> 
> Log in as a different user?
> 
> 
> 
>>>With the new code, only the first copy of an ACK or the first
>>>copy of a new message for you should cause the windows to pop up.
>>
>>Looks like I have the new code though...
>>
>>You've got to be a glutton for punishment to want to run Xastir!
> 
> 
> You're again looking at it from a Windows perspective.  You must
> remember that it is a native Unix/Linux X-Windows application, not a
> Windows application.  You're able to run it on Windows only because
> of a free emulator called Cygwin that is able to run some Unix apps
> on Windows.  It's a very foreign environment for a Unix app to be
> running on Windows.
> 
> Get a Linux or other Unix box going and you'll see how nice it plays
> with the OS!
> 
> There _are_ people out there that have switched to Linux in order to
> run Xastir, then converted the rest of their computing world to
> Linux, so we've done a little bit of good in the world.  ;-)
> 

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