[Xastir] LSB distro update ?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Tony Hunt wrote:

> A while back I made a sugestion for a updated LSB version of
> xastir. I think the last one released was early 2008. A newer one
> would be real handy.

> The LSB distro is a easy fast track to getting Xastir going and
> going well on a few different machines now. Ive noticed more and
> more distros appearing now awith LSB support as standard.
>
> Just another push on the LSB front . Please .
>
> Sorry Curt

No need to be sorry!

If I followed my usual script I most likely told you that I didn't
have time right then and suggested that you keep bringing it up
later, for when I (or perhaps others) have the free time.

I can't remember the details about the problems I had last time
which prevented a new version.  I remember that getting the LSB
compile going was a major challenge and a major time-suck the
_first_ time around.  I believe I ran into problems later trying to
re-do it, perhaps one of the libraries changed to make it more
difficult or it might have been a 32-bit/64-bit changeover problem.
I've switched many of my boxes over to 64-bit OpenSuSE-11.x now.

Look at the xastir/scripts/ directory and you'll see quite a few
LSB-related scripts that I wrote from scratch the first time around.
I used those to build various static libraries on the way to
compiling a static LSB-Xastir.  I'd have to start on those scripts
one-at-a-time to try to build a new static version.

If someone else would like to tackle this, I could provide some
support, but I'm not sure I have the free time to tackle it on my
own just yet.

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