[Xastir] geotiff includes on Ubuntu 8.03

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:43:20AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <dick.repasky at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> 
> When I build xastir-1.9.3-2008-* on Ubuntu 8.03 the build fails because it
> cannot find the includes for geotiff.
> 
> - ./configure reports that it will use geotiff
> 
> - The compile fails because xtiffio.h and geo_normalize.h cannot be found
> 
> - If I edit src/Makefile and insert the appropriate includes (i.e., -I) xastir
>   builds without error.
> 
> - If I try the correct procedure (as indicated ./configure help info)
> 
>    export CPPFLAGS=/usr/include/geotiff

That's not the correct procedure.

export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff" is the correct thing.

Using what you tried would force invalid arguments into the compilation
command line, and result in the error you see.

>    ./configure --without-ax25 --with-geotiff --without-festival
> 
>   ./configure fails very early with the error "configure: error: C compiler
>   cannot create executables"
> 
> Is there a better way to tell ./configure the location of the includes?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dick
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