[Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

[John Ronan]

On 6 Jul 2007, at 14:30, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> 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:
>
Maybe with a 'Suggested Minimum', 'For the adventurous', 'Developer'  
tags/headings or something?

Regards
John

>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -----
> 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)"
>
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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>

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John Ronan <jronan at tssg.org>, +353-51-302938
Telecommunications Software &  Systems Group,  http://www.tssg.org