[Xastir] Seg faults

[Steve Friis]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Steve Friis wrote:
>
>   
>>> Ok.  In the case where you _do_ try to use Terraserver, you'll end
>>> up with a map.gif or map.jpg in the ~/.xastir/tmp/ directory.  Take
>>> a look at that with ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick and see if IM/GM
>>> crashes when you run "display" or "gm display" on the file.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> What do I look for if there is no file(s) in either the temp directory
>> or the map_cache directories?
>>     
>
> Ok, if that's the case then either libcurl or wget was not able to
> fetch the file.  Check your start up messages to see which you're
> using.  A snippet of mine looks like this:
>
>   geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
>
> Which leads me to conclude that I compiled libcurl in.  I'd then try
> downloading a remote file using "curl" from the command line to see
> if the library was functional at all.  Same for wget, if your
> compile used wget instead, try doing a wget on a remote URL.  See if
> this is what is crashing on you.  I recall having a bad wget install
> at one point and having to update it to a newer version.
>
> Of course this problem could be happening earlier in the map load
> too, before it tries to fetch the remote map.  Starting Xastir in
> debug mode and checking the resulting file should give us some clues
> there.
>
>     (xastir -v 4095 2>&1) | tee debug.log &
>
> --
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>
>   
I think I found out something interesting today. While trying to figure 
out why I was getting segfaults, I noticed that I had compiled with 
Graphicsmajick. I removed GM and installed with Imagemajick instead. Now 
everything works!!!

Maybe this would help others having strange problems?

Steve/WM5Z