[Xastir] Macintosh and gpsman

[Lisa Harper]

Heck. It was just a simple chmod +x problem. Thanks for the very prompt
help, though! Works now.
Lisa

On Nov 8, 2007 3:43 PM, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:

> 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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