[Xastir] Window resizing

[Lee Bengston]

On 4/8/09, Rick Green <rtg at aapsc.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Dale Seaburg wrote:
>
>> When I tried to recompile xastir 1.9.5, I ran into more "missing" lib's,
>> tools, etc than you can shake a stick at.  I spent my whole evening trying
>> to
>> chase each missing component.  Often, a missing component needed something
>>
>> else for *it* to work.  Sheesh!  What a rat-race.  That's when the
>> lightbulb
>> turned on and I remembered back to my earlier days of linux and the
>> developer
>> install option.  I am backing up my effort on the Q1U as I write this.
>> Tonight, I'll do the Xubunto 8.10 install *again* choosing the custom
>> path.
>> There may be an easier method, but it's not obvious to me at the moment.
>> I
>> finally got openMotif to compile - I couldn't find any of the Xm/XM* stuff
>>
>> needed by xastir.  But, I still am getting an error when trying to compile
>>
>> pcre.  lcms compiled OK.  gdal installed OK by apt-get.  And, on it goes
>> like
>> a cat chasing it's tail...
>>
>   One of the beauties of the debian-based distros is the 'apt' system,
> which does a beautiful job of pulling in dependencies for you.
>    If you are running the distros xastir package, and you want to roll
> your own from source, I don't believe you need to reinstall the entire OS,
> but just install the missing packages:
>
>   sudo apt-get install build-essential cvs make automake
>   ...will pull in the compiler and tools
>
>   sudo apt-get build-dep xastir
>    ...will pull in all the -dev header packages necessary to compile and
> link the version in the distro's repository.  The libraries themselves
> should have been pulled in along with the distros xastir package.
>
>    At this point, you should be able to grab a source tree from a tarball
> or CVS, and configure and compile it.  The output of configure will tell
> you about any libraries which are needed for new features not included in
> the distros version, but at this point you'll have all the latest bugfixes
> and tweaks, and probably only be lacking the latest 'experimental' map
> types.

Also, the Installation notes at
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_8.10 show what
libraries are needed in support of the various capabilities when
compiling Xastir from source.

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX