[Xastir] Debian Squeeze Make issues

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Lee Bengston wrote:
> On 10/19/09, James Cameron <vk2lqz at wia.org.au> wrote:
> > I don't know why the default configure doesn't pick it up.
> 
> That problem has been brought up previously with Ubuntu.  Installing
> libgeotiff from source instead of the repositories is another way
> around it.  That's what is documented in the HowTo's for Ubuntu.  A
> standard configure works when the binary geotiff package is avoided.

Installing libgeotiff from source is probably the wrong thing to do
under these circumstances, assuming long term configuration stability of
the system is desired.

Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) has modified how libgeotiff is built, in
order to comply with policies and packaging standards.

Xastir's configure could be fixed to search in the obvious alternate
place for geotiff includes.  It would simplify the documentation and the
install from source.  Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) handle this by
holding the fix on behalf of Xastir.

I've reviewed Xastir's configure.ac.  It doesn't search at all.

So the choice is between holding knowledge of the Debian specific
workaround in the Xastir Wiki, in the Ubuntu pages, or ... fixing
configure.ac to better handle the situation portably.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/