[Xastir] No Maps

[Ray Wells]

I've had a long standing problem with no maps in xastir and I almost 
drove Curt to insanity with my problem.

The problem started with a Debian upgrade some time ago but I don't 
recall just which upgrade it was, not that that's important at this 
stage because I've moved on.

I'm building up a new system to replace the trusty old BBS/node machine 
and lo and behold, I still have no maps. The "new" system is a P700 with 
256M RAM.

The new machine is running Kubuntu 7.04 and I've followed the Howto from 
the wiki to the letter to install xastir.

The maps I wish to display are gif or jpg.

The strange part of all this is if I install xastir from a deb package I 
can display my maps, but not if I compile from sources, even though 
xastir reports it's compiling with everything (except festival, which 
doesn't bother me).

I could run with the deb package except for one thing. The deb package 
expects to find libax25 in the old location, and libax25 installed from 
the deb package installs there.

However, I run fpac and fbb and they install from compiled sources. To 
accommodate fpac and other locally compiled AR applications I compile 
modified versions of libax25, ax25-tools and ax25-apps which install to 
the "new" locations.

Right now I have all the ax25 stuff compiled and installed from modified 
sources and xastir has no maps, except worldhi.map.

If I use apt-get to try to install xastir from a deb package, the only 
extra packages it wants to install are libax25 and lesstif2, suggesting 
that everything else that xastir needs to display maps is present on the 
system.

Openmotif is installed instead of lesstif but on the other machine I 
tried both without success. I've also substituted graphicmagick for 
imagemagick but to no avail.

I've thought about colour depth because that has been suggested but 
given that xastir installed from the deb package works fine, I think it 
reasonable to assume that is not the problem.


Has anybody else experienced this problem?

Ray vk2tv