[Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

[Alex Carver]

--- On Mon, 6/9/08, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> From: Curt, WE7U 
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system
> To: "Alex Carver" 
> Cc: xastir at xastir.org
> Date: Monday, June 9, 2008, 11:12 PM
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Alex Carver wrote:
> 
> > Ok, it locked up again while handling the radar GIFs. 
> That was
> > the last thing Xastir seems to be doing as it's
> the message that
> > was at the bottom in the status bar when it froze.  No
> bulletin
> > box was up this time, it just froze on its own.  It
> had downloaded
> > the map just fine when I started Xastir.
> > 
> > I guess next thing to try is a different window
> manager.
> 
> Or if you're using libcurl, try wget instead, or
> vice-versa.  Those
> are the two that do the fetching of the maps.  Perhaps
> there's a bug
> in one of those and Xastir is waiting for them to return?

Is there a way to force the use of wget without recompiling?  I compiled using libcurl.