[Xastir] geotiff includes on Ubuntu 8.03

[Richard Polivka, N6NKO]

In the case of my Fedora 8 install, I put in the line 
"-I/usr/include/libgeotiff" to get rid of the same message.

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


Tom Russo wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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