[Xastir] Xastir compile options

[Dan Brown]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:

> Managed to get everything installed minus GPSman support(which I don't need
> right now anyhow) and for some reason now I am getting this error upon
> startup:
> 
> sbrown at onyxia:~/xastir$ xastir &
> [1] 28108
> xastir: error while loading shared libraries: libgeotiff.so: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> I looked to see if the file was indeed there:
> sbrown at onyxia:~/xastir$ slocate libgeotiff.so
> /home/sbrown/libgeotiff-1.2.3/libgeotiff.so.1.2.3
> /home/sbrown/libgeotiff-1.2.3/libgeotiff.so
> /usr/local/lib/libgeotiff.so.1.2.3
> /usr/local/lib/libgeotiff.so.1.2
> /usr/local/lib/libgeotiff.so.1
> /usr/local/lib/libgeotiff.so
> [1]+  Exit 127                xastir
> sbrown at onyxia:~/xastir$
> 
> Looks like /usr/local/lib/libgeotiff.so should be the target? I also checked
> the permissions, this appears to be a symlink:
> 
> sbrown at onyxia:~/xastir$ ls -al /usr/local/lib/libgeotiff.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 25 18:12 /usr/local/lib/libgeotiff.so ->
> libgeotiff.so.1
> 
> Not sure if that should be linked back to libgeotiff.so.1 or not?
> 

Linux? 

what does your /etc/ld.so.config look like? Does it include /usr/local/lib? 
And, did you run something like: 

sudo /sbin/ldconfig -v 

to make linux recheck things? 




> 
> 
> On 10/25/06, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1
> > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> > "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get
> > is
> > one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
> > oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick
> >
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