[Xastir] Non-functioning Menu.

[Rich Hall]

Hi Curt,

Curt, WE7U reportedly babbled:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Rich Hall wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to build Xastir on a Fedora Core 2 system. Everything builds
>> fine..
>> but when Xastir is run it comes up with a screen (no maps installed yet) that
>> looks
>> normal, but the menu functions do nothing... clicking on anything across the top
>> (File, View, Map, Station, Message, Interface, Help) does nothing at all.
>
> May be a function of your window manager or bugs in Lesstif.  It
> looks like you're running Lesstif.  Remove the lesstif and
> lesstif-devel packages and install motif and motif-devel instead.
> See if that solves it.  Here with OpenMotif and the FVWM2 window
> manager, everything works as it should.

I wil ltry this tonight.



>> The other
>> quirk is the dbfawk.. I can not find anything about it anywhere or get it to
>> select/install/configure.. What is up with that?
>
> What version of Xastir?  Earlier versions required a configure flag
> "--with-dbfawk" to turn on that feature.  Latest versions try to
> enable it by default.
>
> It looks like you're running CVS Xastir or a recent devel snapshot.
> Check your config.log file to see if there are more clues as to why
> dbfawk isn't getting enabled.

I did a config with the --with-dbfawk on the command line and it ignored it
completely. The Xastir version was the latest off of the website as of a few days
ago and I have built this before on a laptop sometime back and had a script that
would go down the entire sequence of packages and build each of them in the proper
order with all of the desired options turned on. I snagged that script and put it
over one the new machine and made the appropriate updates to work with the newer
versions of software and checked for errors.. Built everything one module at a time
checking for errors.. Nada... Zip.. It just does not produce function buttons that
work and dbfawk just never installs at all. I stripped out most everything except
what xastir cried about and that did not work either.... errrr.... I will try the
motif stuff next...

I will let you know what happens.

Thanks!
-R

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