[Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, John Ronan wrote:

> > Just curious, is it the general perception that _everything_ listed
> > above that line is needed in order to run, or is it just
> > overachievers (like me) that feel the need to see a positive
> > indication for every option?
> A bit of both methinks.  I think the perception is that if all the
> lines don't say 'yes' then there's something wrong.

Which is probably why people work so hard to get
libtiff/libproj/libgeotiff/libgdal in there even though most will
never have any use for the map capability they provide...

So what would make this easier?  Another horizontal line to break it
up into more sections?

Something like the listing below is what I'd expect most people to
need/want:


---------------------------------------------------------------------------
xastir 1.9.1 has been configured to use the following
options and external libraries:

Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick ........... : GraphicsMagick
Building with ShapeLib ............................. : yes
Building with pcre ................................. : yes
Building with dbfawk ............................... : yes
Building with map caching .......................... : yes
Building with rtree indexing ....................... : yes
----------------------------------------------------------
Building with AX25 ................................. : no
Building with Festival ............................. : no
Building with GPSMan ............................... : no
Building with libproj .............................. : no
Building with GeoTiff .............................. : no
Building with GDAL/OGR ............................. : no
----------------------------------------------------------
Building with ErrorPopups (Old Method) ............. : no
Building with libgc (Debug) ........................ : no
Building with profiling (Debug) .................... : no
Building with Linux Standard Base .................. : no
------------------------------------------------------------------------------


It might also be nice to add another line to the first section which
specifies whether wget or libcurl will be compiled in.  If neither
then internet mapping isn't possible:


---------------------------------------------------------------------------
xastir 1.9.1 has been configured to use the following
options and external libraries:

Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick ........... : GraphicsMagick
Building with ShapeLib ............................. : yes
Building with pcre ................................. : yes
Building with dbfawk ............................... : yes
Building with map caching .......................... : yes
Building with rtree indexing ....................... : yes
Building with internet map fetches ................. : libcurl
----------------------------------------------------------


Later versions of Xastir specify "wget" or "libcurl" in the STDERR
output when you start up Xastir, but it'd be nice to have it show up
in the configure summary as well:


"Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
       geo   Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats allowed)
       geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)"


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