[Xastir] Xastir Devel Snapshot

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Lee Bengston wrote:
>
>> The one time I tried a CVS install in Mandriva 2008.1, the bootstrap
>> script didn't work.
>
>> Automake and Autoconf were installed, but perhaps in strange places.
>> I didn't try to go any further - I ended up downloading a tarball, and
>> it compiled OK.  Would an incomplete bootstrap cause this latest
>> strangeness?
>
> Certainly could.  One could always snag the "configure" script from
> one of the other releases and just run it directly though.

Well, I just tried a clean CVS build on a clean Mandriva 2008.1
install, and no bootstrap error.  The only thing I did differently
this time besides dowload an August XASTIR version vs. a May version
was install the gcc package instead of the gcc43 package.  The gcc
package is version 4.2.3 vs. version 4.3.0 for the gcc43 package.  I
was just guessing that maybe I should be using the package labeled
generically gcc instead of the newer gcc43, but I have no idea if that
made any difference with the bootstrap.  I suspected I might not get a
bootstrap error this time because Dexter didn't mention one in his
messge.  Maybe Mandriva has changed their automake package since May.

>>> Magick fails again - put in libgraphicsmagick1 and its dependencies
>>> libraphicsmagick-devel and libgraphicsmagickwand.

There were 2 problems with ImageMagick when we helped Dexter
previously.  One was resolved by the ainclude.m4 mod that I understand
is already in the latest version of Xastir as of early July.  The
other problem was due to Mandriva installing
/usr/include/ImageMagick/magick instead of the more typical
/usr/include/magick.  I just copied the magick directory under
/usr/include/ImageMagick into /user/include, and configure is happy
with that.  A symlink would also work and save a little disk space.  I
think the reason Magick failed again for Dexter was due to this
installation location issue.

Just got this error on the make...

./../xastir/src/main.c: In function 'Map_font_xfontsel':
../../xastir/src/main.c:4590: error: 'XFONTSEL_PATH' undeclared (first
use in th             is function)
../../xastir/src/main.c:4590: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once

This is familiar - I ran into it when I was helping Dexter before in
early July.  I had compiled the latest tarball in a virtual machine.
It was an easy fix - install the xfontsel rpm package from a
repository and re-configure.

Just did that, so now I have Xastir up and running from CVS on
Mandriva 2008.1 - no bootstrap error like I saw back in May, and I
can't duplicate the strange errors Dexter is seeing now.  In fact,
this CVS version encountered exactly the same issues as the early July
tarball.  The two curveballs were the Imagemagick "magick" directory
in usr/include/ImageMagick instead of /usr/include and the new
requirement of installing the xfontsel package as a result of the font
changes in Xastir.  I'll have to update the Wiki on this stuff.

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX