[Xastir] Macintosh and gpsman

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Lisa Harper wrote:

> I've happily compiled Xastir on my Mac (running Leopard, no less). I've got
> a working installation of gpsman and have created a symbolic link in
> /usr/local/bin (which is in my path). However, configure does not seem to
> see that I have gpsman installed. How can I get configure to see that I have
> gpsman and / or what commandline options might I need to add? I guess this
> goes for gpsmanshp, as well.

configure.ac calls the XASTIR_DETECT_BINARIES macro in acinclude.m4.
This calls standard autoconf macros to try to find the binary, so
standard methods should apply for that.  Try:

    ./configure --help

to see all the configure options you can play with.  FWIW it finds
gpsman at /usr/X11R6/bin/gpsman on my system (found in "config.log"
after configure completes).

It doesn't look like Xastir's configure looks for "gpsmanshp" at
all, so those features will depend only on whether GPSMan is set up
properly with that extra library.

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