[Xastir] iBook install

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Bruce, KQ4TV wrote:

> I finally got xastir loaded and working on my iBook following the
> instructions for "XASTIRonX" at
> <http://members.chello.nl/~m.vanopzeeland/xastir.html>. I ended up
> having to erase the hard drive and start from scratch to get whatever
> was causing xastir not to compile out of the machine. I would like to
> be able to use the ERSI shape files and a USB to serial adapter to a
> KPC-3 Plus for TNC and GPS connection. Anyone have some tips or
> recommendations on getting these to work under MacOSX Panther. I plan
> on following the regular install instructions but suspect there are a
> couple of twists involved (like ./configure --prefix=/sw in leu of the
> more convention ./configure in most instructions).

I contributed Portfiles to DarwinPorts for xastir and everything it needs,
if nothing else you can steal the patches some of them needed. (It uses
prefix=/opt/local)

I got the Deluo USB to serial adapter (from deluo.com, something like $10
or $20), and it uses a pl2303 driver, which I have around here somewhere.
Just works, when combined with gpsd.