[Xastir] Ubuntu 6.10 Bootstrap error

[Stephen Brown Jr]

"I'm hoping to use it to build a ubuntu xastir livecd (we should probably
discuss a common set of features on the list).... its not starting out well
:)"

I totally support that idea, in fact I have toyed with the idea of creating
an Ubuntu ham radio version CD that is installable with commonly used ham
radio applications, Xastir being one of them.

As far as features, at a bare minimum I would love to see a fully featured
Xastir install and a fully working AX.25 stack out of the box, along with
maybe FBB etc. I tried to get FBB and AX.25 working under 6.06 and had
nothing but problems, could have been me I don't know lol.

Then maybe we could add in some of the more common stuff like gpsk, xlog,
etc. I would also like to mess with soundmodem some more, I never got that
working satisfactorily under Ubuntu either.

This distro has a lot of room to grow. I wish they would backport more of
the ham radio apps as building things under Ubuntu can sometimes be a pain
in the ass......

Stephen
N1VLV


On 11/1/06, John Ronan <jronan at tssg.org> wrote:
>
> HI Tom,
> On 1 Nov 2006, at 16:35, Tom Russo wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 04:24:09PM +0000, we recorded a bogon-
> > computron collision of the <jronan at tssg.org> flavor, containing:
> >> 0n at lab-laptop:~/sources/xastir$ aclocal --version
> >> aclocal (GNU automake) 1.4-p6
> >
> > That's really old, indicating a very outdated automake package.
> >
> Balls...
> >> j0n at lab-laptop:~/sources/xastir$ automake --version
> >> automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > Per README.CVS, you  need at least automake version 1.6.3 and
> > autoconf 2.53
> > to build CVS xastir.  You've got a recent autoconf, but a woefully
> > out of
> > date automake (the automake I use for xastir is 1.9.6).
>
> I figured that it was so 'new' that it wouldnt' be using out of date
> packages... thats a pain in the ass.
> >
> > The best bet for doing this without mucking with your system's
> > autotools is
> > to download automake and autoconf sources (www.gnu.org will get you
> > started),
> > then configure them with "--prefix" options so they go to some
> > nonstandard place (say, ~/src/xastir/bin -- this is what I've done
> > on some
> > particularly rude systems),  then build and install them there.
> > It's the
> > work of a few seconds, as these tools are small.  Once you've got
> > that done,
> > just put that nonstandard place earlier in your path than the system's
> > autoconf/automake location, and you should be good to go.
>
> This machine is being used solely with xastir... so I think I'll
> remove automake and install it from source. I'm hoping to use it to
> build a ubuntu xastir livecd (we should probably discuss a common set
> of features on the list).... its not starting out well :)
>
> Thanks
> John
>
> --
> John Ronan <jronan at tssg.org>, +353-51-302938
> Telecommunications Software &  Systems Group,  http://www.tssg.org
>
>
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