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

[Greg Eigsti]

If you look through the last month or two of emails to this list you should
be able to cobble together enough info to get xastir building for both PPC
and MacTel.

I am able to get xastir building on my G4 PowerBook but have never been
successful on my MacTel Mac Mini (though MacTel is not a priority for me so
I have not pursued it).

I noticed that N1OFZ's MacTel package was gone yesterday; too bad.  I am
going to look on my MacTel Mac Mini when I get home to see if I have the
package (for another hopeful xastir user).  If I have it I can make it
available to you (I think I do).  Probably be home late tonight or tomorrow
sometime - still holiday vacationing ;) (Laptop is with me - KD7UBJ-8 -
running latest xastir on PPC OS X 10.4.8)

I can work with you to get xastir building on your PPC if you like; its
mostly a matter of having the correct ports installed.  FYI - I use MacPorts
more than Fink and have found some problems with Fink (besides them being
older versions and less of them).  It seems to me that there is one Fink
port that xastir does work better with.

Greg
KD7UBJ 

> On 1/1/07 1:48 PM, "Christian Glace" <f1gwr at free.fr> wrote:
> 
>> 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 Eventually some of these libraries show up "outdated" in FinkCommander.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
>> 
>> 
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