[Xastir] New Xastir virtual machine with Xubuntu 8.04 available.

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:55:11PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:50:55PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> > 
> > Does this VM support updating Xastir code from
> > CVS/compiling/installing?
> 
> Yes, all libraries and headers required for building Xastir are installed.
> All except GDAL and festival, that is --- GDAL is barely used in Xastir
> and not worth building in for most users, and not including festival is just
> a habit at this point.
> 
> I do not recall whether the VM contains a current checkout of CVS Xastir or
> not, and I'm not near a machine with the VM installed for at least another
> few hours.  If Lee knows the answer perhaps he'll pipe in before then, but
> regardless I'll double check tonight and see.  When I had built the earlier
> VMs I always had a CVS checkout and a build directory there ready to go,
> and Lee emulated my approach when he built this VM, so I'm guessing there
> is.

Just checked.  There is indeed a copy of a recent CVS checkout of Xastir
in the src directory of the default user, and a CVS 
update/bootstrap and a configure/make in the build directory will bring it up 
to date.  That process is described in the Wiki article.

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