[Xastir] Mac OSx Problems..... please help if you can

[Keith Kaiser]

Jason,

I thought I would give you a little more background on the use of  
Xastir on my MacBook Pro, in v10.5.6.

First, I've had it running here for a couple of years, with only one  
problem, the menus under the Timing option did not have labels. This  
was not a terrible problem but one of those things that gets stuck in  
the back of your head and you can't let go of. So about 3 weeks ago I  
decided to fix it.

I was told the reason the labels don't show is that OSX had a buggy  
version of OpenMotif and that changing to Lesstif of upgrading  
OpenMotif would fix it. Here is where the problems began because I  
don't remember everything I did in my attempt to resolve the issue. I  
know I loaded the newer version of OpenMotif, and unloaded it again. I  
know I loaded Lesstif first using MacPorts then after unloading it I  
loaded it from source, then I loaded the new version of OpenMotif from  
a binary..... etc. In short I'm not sure what I have where any more.  
After each of the various attempts to load a motif, I re-loaded/ 
compiled Xastir, never fixing the menu problems.

Somewhere along the way, I updated my version my MacPorts, I also used  
it to update all the software under it's control, but at this point if  
I do a 'port installed' Lesstif is not listed so I don't think it is  
installed any longer.

At this point I went back to the Xastir source code and have  
recompiled all of that, here in fact is all of the code I use just so  
you can see I'm not hacking it up too bad.

$ cd /Work/xastir-1.9.5
$ make distclean
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ ./configure
$ make && sudo make install && sudo chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir

This all goes great, no errors and near as I can tell everything is  
where it's suppose to be.

Only when I attempt to launch Xastir ($ xastir -v 2047 &) do I get the  
problems, the bottom few lines of the log are below.

...
Code #1128 <XASCHEMA02> data <Xastir CAD Schema> hotkey <>
Code #1129 <XASCHEMA03> data <Xastir full Schema> hotkey <>
Code #1130 <XASCHEMA04> data <APRSWorld Schema> hotkey <>
LANG 1131
Error: Unresolved inheritance operation

My feeling is that I should unload all MacPort installs, and MacPorts  
itself, but I'm not sure what the effect on my overall computer will  
be. Will this cause issues with the OS, with other non MacPorts  
installed software? I've asked this question on the MacPorts forums as  
well, and am now waiting on an answer. If I can dump MacPorts and all  
it's ilk then I will recompile Xastir again and see what happens.

Thanks Jason

P.S.
I have a balloon launch (W0NSV-11) on Sunday 4/6 and I would like to  
use Xastir to track it.


On Mar 20, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> Keith,
>
> I haven't had time to chase this, but it is high on my list to get
> working, as 2 of my 3 macs are running leopard now.  (The other one is
> held back because xastir works!)
>
> I prefer to build from source instead of using fink or macports due to
> some problems I had in the past.  Judging from some recent comments, a
> few problems still exist.
>
> Once we get 6 (!) balloon flights out of the way in the next couple of
> weeks, I can give this a bit higher priority.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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73's
Keith Kaiser
wa0tjt at gmail.com