[Xastir] Xastir compile options

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:37:22PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <stephen.brown75 at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Still tweaking my install out and I noticed the following:
> 
> Building with AX25 ................................. : yes
> Building with Festival ............................. : yes
> Building with GPSMan ............................... : no (don't need on
> this machine, but will for my laptop eventually)
> Building with ImageMagick .......................... : yes
> Building with libproj .............................. : no
> Building with GeoTiff .............................. : no
> Building with GDAL/OGR ............................. : no
> Building with ShapeLib ............................. : no
> Building with pcre ................................. : no
> Building with dbfawk ............................... : no
> Building with map caching .......................... : yes
> ---------------------------------------------------------- (not worried
> about anything below here as I assume this is just debug/experimental stuff)
> 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
> 
> Most of these I'm assuming are missing libraries, but I'll be the first to
> admit that I'm a little lost and could use some direction. Is there a list
> somewhere that details what libs/depends I will need for a fully capable
> install from compilation?

I recommend adding libproj, libgeotiff, shapelib and pcre first. 

The INSTALL document describes all of this stuff in detail, albeit not in
the most friendly manner that some would like.

I also recommend enabling rtree spatial indexing if you plan to use shapefile 
maps and do a bunch of zooming and panning operations --- this option,
while still marked "experimental" is very stable and can speed up map redraws
when using shapefiles that cover much more area than you intend to view at any
given time.  rtree builds a spatial index that makes choosing what parts of
the shapefile to display much faster, but its benefits only show up if you're
doing lots of map redraws while zoomed in to a small area.

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