[Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

[Tom Robson, ve7did]

Just tried cvs update -d update.   I have shapefiles installed (for years). 
Using Slack 9.1

Last cvs update was done Nov 2, 2006
Nothing has changed! (I don't think)

Following errors  with cvs update -d   OR  cvs update

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va7gq at va7gq:~/xastir$ cvs update -d
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
? config/install-exec-hook
? src/compiledate.c
cvs update: Updating .
cvs update: Updating Davis
cvs update: Updating Davis/src
cvs update: Updating LaCrosse
cvs update: Updating LaCrosse/autom4te.cache
cvs update: Updating LaCrosse/src
cvs update: Updating callpass
cvs update: Updating config
cvs update: Updating help
cvs update: Updating intl
cvs update: Updating m4
cvs update: Updating po
cvs update: Updating scripts
cvs update: Updating src
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: Updating src/Davis
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: Updating src/Davis/src
cvs update: Updating src/callpass
cvs update: Updating src/rtree
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: Updating src/shapelib
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: Updating src/shapelib/contrib
cvs update: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Permission denied
cvs update: Updating src/shapelib/contrib/doc
cvs update: Updating src/shapelib/contrib/tests
cvs update: Updating symbols
cvs update: cannot remove src/shapelib/contrib/tests: Permission denied
cvs [update aborted]: cannot open src/shapelib/contrib/CVS: Permission denied
va7gq at va7gq:~/xastir$
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Here is the result of last part of   ./configure

config.status: creating src/rtree/Makefile
config.status: creating src/shapelib/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: src/shapelib/Makefile.in

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...73 Tom


On November 10, 2006 01:53 pm, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:40:50PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:47:54PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> >
> > [on the subject of making shapelib build as a part of xastir's build if
> > it isn't installed]
> >
> > > Unfortunately, that does imply that we'll have to hack on shapelib's
> > > makefile, as Jason points out.  That should not be difficult.
> > >
> > > I'm bored now.  I might look into this right this minute.
> >
> > Took slightly longer than planned to do this, but I'm about to check it
> > in. If you already have shapelib installed it'll use that, if not, it
> > builds and uses a static version.
> >
> > Also, if you have shapelib installed, you can (for the moment) forced it
> > to use the internal one with "--without-shapelib" (mostly for testing).
>
> Done.
>
> CVS users can try it out when it hits anon CVS (that's fast these days,
> right?) as long as you're careful to do "cvs update -d" to get the new
> directory.
>
> I'd appreciate folks trying it out, because while it *should* just build
> everywhere due to the simplicity of the library, I have only tested it on
> one platform.