[Xastir] Xastir is running on OSX

[Keith Kaiser]

Loading PCRE seems to have given me nearly everything I wanted. I'm  
not sure I want to muck around with the Berkeley DB so I'll pass on  
that.

Now on to v9.2



On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>
>> Currently I run this;
>> ./configure --with-motif-includes=/usr/OpenMotif/include --with- 
>> motif-libs=/usr/OpenMotif/lib --without-perl
>
> This will show you all of the options that Xastir's "configure"
> command is capable of:
>
>    ./configure -h | less
>
> Notice there's no "--without-perl" flag listed.  That was an option
> to the ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick "configure" that somebody
> suggested to you.  Take that flag out of Xastir's configure line
> 'cuz it doesn't do anything for you.
>
>
>> pcre (Shapefile customization) ......... : no
>> dbfawk (Shapefile customization) ....... : no
>> map caching (Raster map speedups) ...... : no
>
> You'll need PCRE and PCRE development headers installed in order to
> get dbfawk functionality.
>
> For map caching you'll need the Berkeley DB library plus the
> development headers, version 4.x.
>
> With respect to the Berkely DB library: There are often conflicts
> between versions if you have multiples installed.  It's common for
> Xastir to find the header for one version during the
> configure/compile stages, then get linked against a different
> version when running the Xastir executable.  This can cause Xastir
> to crash, so we added a run-time check for the DB version when you
> start Xastir:  It'll cease and desist using Berkeley DB for caching
> if it notices this condition, thereby avoiding a crash.  If you get
> into this condition you'll see it in the output messages in the
> Xterm that you started Xastir in.  If you start Xastir by clicking
> on an icon instead, you'll never see the message.
>
> Avoiding the problem completely:  Remove older versions of the DB
> library and development headers before installing newer ones.
>
> You may again need special flags to help configure find PCRE and/or
> Berkeley DB.
>
> -- 
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73's
Keith Kaiser
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