[Xastir] Installing Xastir 1.9.9 on Ubuntu

[John Wilson]

On 08/02/2010 04:05 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:52:07PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the<kc4lzn at gmail.com>  flavor, containing:
>    
>> On 08/02/2010 03:44 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>>      
>>> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, John Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> This is what I got after I got past the motif error./
>>>>
>>>> xastir 1.9.8 has been configured to use the following
>>>> options and external libraries:
>>>>          
>>> 1.9.8?  You've either got the wrong version or you need to run
>>> ./bootstrap.sh first to re-create the configure script from scratch.
>>> Of course bootstrap.sh requires some other tools you might not have
>>> installed yet (autoconf/automake).
>>>
>>> If you snagged CVS sources, then run bootstrap.sh.  If you snaged
>>> the stable release, go back and snag the development release done
>>> yesterday (Aug 1st release).
>>>
>>> You won't have OpenStreetMap support with anything less.
>>>
>>>        
>> I followed these instructions on the CVS Update portion of the site:
>>
>> /Here are the commands to do if you want a clean build of the latest
>> sources, and want configure to recheck all the libraries and header
>> files that Xastir needs: /
>>      
> This is not the text in the "Updating Xastir" section of the Ubuntu 10.04
> document (http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_10.04).  Which wiki page are
> you reading (post the URL)? That could be where you're going wrong.
>
>    
>> /         cd xastir
>>           cvs update (snag all the latest changes)
>>           ./bootstrap.sh/
>>           ./configure
>>      
> Did you first follow all the steps in
>
>   Get XASTIR source code From the "bleeding edge" CVS repository
>
> exactly to populate the xastir directory with the files?  Because those steps
> should have given you 1.9.9.  If you followed some different procedure (as, for
> example, adding a "-r" and a release tag to the checkout line, then you won't
> get the bleeding edge, which is what you need for OSM.
>
> I just finished going through the entire 10.04 wiki page on a newly-built
> Ubuntu 10.04 machine (I had coincidentally repurposed an old Losedows machine
> just this week for another project), and by following the page precisely, I
> got a fully-enabled Xastir (skipping GDAL), and it was 1.9.9.  So what you
> really need is to go to the right Wiki page
> (http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_10.04) and make sure you're following
> *all* the steps from the beginning.
>
> I would suggest deleting whatever Xastir source tree you have and starting
> over at the "Get XASTIR  source code From the "bleeding edge" CVS repository"
> section of the Wiki notes.
>
>    
Wow...Never saw that one.

This is the page I was working from...

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/Notes:CVS

Let me digest the page you referenced.

John