[Xastir] Compiling Xastir with ax25

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:01:03AM -0700, Jeremy Utley wrote:
> GRRR, I hate mailing lists that don't set the reply-to address to be the list
> 
> 
> On 21 Oct 2004 01:53:30 +1000, Ron Perry <ronk at sunlinux.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi Curt,
> > Thanks for the reply.
> > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 01:16, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Ron Perry wrote:
> > >
> > > > I can't seem to get the configure script to recognise that I have the
> > > > packages/libs needed. Libranet (Debian testing)
> > > 
> > > Needed for what?  You have a pretty good selection going there.
> > > What is it that you still want to get included in the compile?
> > > Just AX.25?
> > >
> > 
> > yes just ax25
> > I have ax25 running
> > 
> > > Looks like you passed three out of the four tests.  Do you have all
> > > of the correct pieces for your kernel version?  Have you compiled
> > > your kernel with AX.25 support or verified that it already has it?
> > > That portion of our configure script is checking that it can compile
> > > a test program that uses some AX.25 capability, and it is failing.
> > > Check "config.log" for the details and it may give you more info.
> > 
> > >From config.log.  ax25_config_load_ports
> > 
> > configure:11865: checking for ax25_config_load_ports in -lax25
> > configure:11898: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -pipe -Wall -pthread
> > -I/usr/local/includ
> > e   -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/local/lib   -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.c
> > -lax25
> > -lXpm -lrt -lXm -lXt -lXp -lXext -lm   -lSM -lICE -lX11  -lshp -lpcre
> > -lproj -lt
> > iff -lgeotiff >&5
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lax25
> 
> Just as I thought from the locate you pasted in the private email to
> me.  You're missing a symlink to make your libax25 library be simply
> "libax25.so" - without this, gcc can't find the library to link to. 
> Try this:
> 
> ln -s libax25.so.0 /usr/lib/libax25.so
> 
> You might also need to do that with other libraries in the libax25
> package, and if you used the debian package to install libax25, PLEASE
> report this to them!
> 

I am also running Libranet and have the Debian libax25 and libax25-dev
packages.  The correct links were created when the the dev package was
installed, so I suspect he may be missing this.

'apt-get install libax25-dev' should fix things if this is the case.

73,
Bob, N7XY