[Xastir] Help on error msg...

[Lee Bengston]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Lee wrote:
>
>> For quite some time now, Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian based
>> distro's have had a similar problem.  The geotiff library from the
>> repos has been installing in /usr/include/geotiff.  We've been
>> getting around it by running configure as follows:
>>
>> ../configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff"
>>
>> It's in the installation notes for Ubuntu 10.04 as well as some of
>> the earlier versions.
>
>
> For OpenSuSe use this line instead:
>
>    ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/libgeotiff"
>
> I just made a tweak to configure.ac (run bootstrapsh to regenerate
> configure) which checks for the libgeotiff include files.  If Xastir
> can't find those, the summary table at the end of the configure
> stage will have this line:
>
>      GeoTiff (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : no
>
> Prior to that will be a warning line like this:
>
>    *** Warning: geotiff include files not found.
>
> That should alleviate any problems with thinking one has geotiff
> support and then getting most of the way through the compile before
> it breaks.  Now it breaks sooner, so you can add in a configure line
> like the above to fix it and _then_ compile.
>
> Thanks for the heads-up on that Lee!

Thanks Curt!  That should help a lot.

Lee