[Xastir] Non-functioning Menu.

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:03:29PM -0600, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <russo at bogoflux.losalamos.nm.us> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:21:32AM -0700, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <archer at eskimo.com> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Rich Hall wrote:
> > 
> > > >> Building with ShapeLib...... : ../shapelib-1.2.10
> > >
> > > When I did the initial build it failed to find shaplib.. so I put the arguments in
> > > for it and all was well. Then lastnight I also added the dbfawk args and as you saw
> > > it ignored it completely.
> > 
> > Well, I _think_ that is the wrong solution.  It should be finding
> > the libraries if they are put in standard locations.
> 
> Here's where the problem is.  Because shapelib is installed in a nonstandard
> place (../shapelibe-1.2.10) and because configure is set to enable dbfawk 
> only if "use_pcre" and "use_shapelib" are both "yes", the configure test is
> failing (because use_shapelib is "../shapelib-1.2.10").
> 
> The correct solution is to fix configure --- it is a valid use of "--with" to 
> use it to specify locations of libraries that are nonstandard.  I'll take a 
> look and send you a patch, Curt.

Turns out that xastir's configure script is currently set up to use 
"--with-xxxxx"  as a purely binary "yes/no" option instead of "--enable-xxxx" 
which means it's not properly set up to allow nonstandard installations of 
dependent libraries.  It'll take a little longer to fix it than I thought.  
But shouldn't be too hard. 

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