[Xastir] My latest Ubuntu adventures

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:20:18PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <stephen.brown75 at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> 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
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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. 

You need to install Berkeley DB 4.x and its development package, and make
sure configure can find it.

See the INSTALL document that is in the xastir directory from your tar file,
under:

   10. OPTIONAL:  Install Berkely DB Library to enable map caching
      of internet maps.

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