[Xastir] 2 Weeks Xastir on OSX Installation problems : help!

[Christian Glace]

Hi there!

I tried to install Xastir on 3 Macs under OSX 10.4.8 (updated):

1- a powermac g4/450 which never had the xastir files on it. No  
problem with X11 and N1OFZ's package "Xastir_ppc.dmg". Xastir loads  
and shows up.

2- a mac mini intel monocore with new disk format and system install  
(with X11 install checked)
2.1- the link to get the "intel" package is broken in http:// 
n1ofz.connares.org/software/Xastir.
2.2- so I also tried to install it from source following the 1.7.1  
version instructions at:
http://n1ofz.connares.org/software/Xastir_old
Eventually some of these libraries show up "outdated" in FinkCommander.
Gdal and gdal-dev are *not* included in the FinkCommander list (only  
on this Intel install - on the G4 these appear).
And geotiff does not complete the ./configure:
MacMini:~/Desktop cg$ cd libgeotiff-1.2.2
MacMini:~/Desktop/libgeotiff-1.2.2 cg$ ./configure --prefix=/sw
checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin8.8.1
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin8.8.1
checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin8.8.1
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ld -shared ... no
checking for exp in -lm... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for inflateInit_ in -lz... yes
checking zlib.h usability... yes
checking zlib.h presence... yes
checking for zlib.h... yes
checking for jinit_compress_master in -ljpeg... no
checking for TIFFOpen in -ltiff... no
configure: error: You will need to substantially rewrite libxtiff to
build libgeotiff without libtiff


3- a powerbook G4/1.5 for which I tried several installs (took me one  
week). This portable computer already had an old version of X11 and  
Xastir running properly with OSX 10.3. But since I have OSX 10.4 no  
means to update it properly.
Had to reinstall the system three times (OK it's because I got rid of  
some files including X11, Fink, Xastir and unexpectedly most  
probably... system related files!...) But no way: the N1OFZ's package  
"Xastir_ppc.dmg resulted in interrupted installation with the message  
like "installation errors occured - please retry."

And sadly for my application I need Xastir on the two small machines  
not the big one...
I read and tried every thing that I found on the internet about X11 &  
Xastir - problems & FAQ's without success...
Any idea ?
Thanks in advance for your kind help,
Best regards and 73's
Christian F1GWR