[Xastir] My latest Ubuntu adventures

[Stephen Brown Jr]

Well, it's too early to see it yet as I am still testing, but compiling
Xastir from source may be a whole lot easier than we originally thought. So
far, here is what I did on a fresh install to get Xastir 6.06 compiled from
source using the tarball off of sourceforge(I didn't go the CVS route, not
yet anyhow):

download the source tarball from sourceforge and extract it somewhere, I
made a src directory under my home directory and extracted it there
sudo apt-get install build-dep xastir
you will also need autoconf, sudo apt-get install autoconf
change to the scripts directory. Inside there is a great script called
get-maptools.sh
This will install all of the needed map libraries etc.
You will need to edit one line of the script, specifically the one that
deals with the XASDIR variable:
XASDIR=$HOME/src/xastir
I just added a * at the end as a wildcard, you could optionally specify the
actual directory
Also add a tmp directory: mkdir $HOME/src/xastir-insert-version-here/tmp or
the script will fail complaining it can't find this directory
run sh maptools.sh
cd ..
sudo ./configure

xastir 1.8.4 has been configured to use the following
options and external libraries:

Building with AX25 ................................. : yes
Building with Festival ............................. : yes
Building with GPSMan ............................... : yes
Building with ImageMagick .......................... : yes
Building with libproj .............................. : yes
Building with GeoTiff .............................. : yes
Building with GDAL/OGR ............................. : yes
Building with ShapeLib ............................. : yes
Building with pcre ................................. : yes
Building with dbfawk ............................... : yes
Building with map caching .......................... : no
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Building with ErrorPopups (Old Method) ............. : no
Building with libgc (Debug) ........................ : no
Building with profiling (Debug) .................... : no
Building with rtree indexing (Experimental) ........ : no
Building with Linux Standard Base (Experimental) ... : no

sudo make
sudo make install
xastir&

I haven't noticed any issues with building or using it with this method. How
do I enable map caching? I believe that was a configure option but can't
seem to find reference to it anywhere. I'm still testing and I have
succesfully done this on my main linux box as well as a plain vanilla fresh
install of Ubuntu 6.06 in a vmachine. I have a friends box that I am going
to attempt this on as well.

I'd like to add this to the wiki if this seems like a plausible solution, as
I also feel this is the easiest method so far in dealing with this over the
past month.

Anyone have any input?

73's
Stephen
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