[Fwd: [Xastir] No xastir executable]

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:30:38PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jjolin at itol.com> flavor, containing:
> 
>>   
>>> I read your post again and saw I should get rid of 4.4 dev, but that is 
>>> not installed to start with.  After all this xastir still complains about 
>>> the mis-match.  I am using xastir 1.9.3 development.
>>>     
>> 
>> Well, that's puzzling.  For Xastir to have found 4.4 header files, they have
>> to be around from somewhere.  Try doing
>> 
>>   find / -name 'db*.h'
>> 
>> and see what it comes up with.  It's possible that Xastir's config file is
>> finding some errant file that isn't part of a package.  Figuring out what
>> file it's actually using will take some investigating.  You might be able
>> to figure out what it's found by looking at config.log --- perhaps there are
>> clues there to how it's located a db.h file and where it lives.
>> 
>> You can force the issue by giving configure the 
>> --with-bdb-incdir=/path/to/db/headers option: make sure you know where the
>> good Berkeley DB headers live and then give that path, it won't go searching
>> and find the wrong one.  But before you do that, you should try to find where
>> the errant one is coming from and remove whatever package installed it.
>> 
>>   
> Before I start the above, I should tell you that after configure runs it 
> says the caching is enabled.  Is that of any significance?  

No.  It means that xastir's configure found a Berkeley DB header file and 
the library --- but configure doesn't check their compatibility, and so you wind
up with the broken set-up you have.

Someone with time might want to look at how configure does that autodetection
and augment it with a compatibility check, but that's for another time.

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