[Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

[Rob Neece]

I tested the build directions and tried to integrate the help from Lee 
(K5DAT) and Gale (KC4PL).   Lee's instructions are on the web as given 
below, and Gale's instructions appeared in an email.  As it turned out, 
Lee's instructions were generally a super-set of the instructions given 
by Gale, so that is mostly what I followed.  The install was mostly 
successful.  A few notes on what I did follow:

Installing packages
  used automake1.9 instead of automake {per Gale} (was this a good idea?)
  did a great number of additional installs based (per Lee)

Setting up .cvsrc
  I made a typo, so when the file ran, -z3 was not applied.  It probably 
didn't matter.

Getting the source
  I chose to get STABLE, figuring I could easily go to the bleeding 
edge, but going back might be hard.

Shell scripts
  Gale suggests running ./get-maptools.sh in ~/src/xastir.  The script 
didn't exist, so I skipped it.

Libraries
  I built the proj.4 library as suggested, but skipped libgeotiff, since 
it sounded unnecessary for me.
  In retrospect,  it would have been good to do it -- very easy, why not?

Install xastir
  I got the expected results, except GeoTiff and GDAL capabilities are 
not available.

festival
  running "festival --server &" fails due to "no default voice found ..."

xastir
  running xastir seems to work great, but there are some messages at the 
console
  see below

 >>>
rtn at hawk:~/src/xastir/build$ xastir
Making user dir
Making user config dir
Making user data dir
Making user log dir
Making user tracklogs dir
Making user tmp dir
Making user gps dir
Making map_cache dir


Built-in map types:
      gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
       map   APRSdos Maps
       map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
       pdb   PocketAPRS Maps

Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
       geo   Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats 
allowed)
       geo   URL (Internet maps via wget)
       shp   ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
       xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
Making user /home/rtn/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf file
client(1) Sat Feb  6 18:53:30 2010 : accepted from localhost
Indexing maps...
draw_geo_image_map:sscanf parsing error
draw_geo_image_map:sscanf parsing error
draw_geo_image_map:sscanf parsing error
draw_geo_image_map:sscanf parsing error
Finished indexing maps
*** Reading WX Alert log files
*** Done with WX Alert log files
convert_from_xastir_coordinates:X out-of-range (too 
low):18446744073677686016
convert_from_xastir_coordinates:X out-of-range (too high):161465600
<<<

I set up xaster to use tigermap.geo, and I'm very pleased.  Now I'm sure 
I will have some questions in a day or two.

My suggestions for the MEPIS instructions on the web would be to 
resolve  which automake should be used (there were several versions 
available).  Apparently something more needs to be done for festival, 
which may be obvious, but I've never even heard of festival, so it will 
require a little detective work.  It seems like the bleeding edge 
version is recommended over STABLE.  Why wouldn't STABLE be recommended 
for the masses?

In conclusion -- Great Job guys!!!!  Thanks so much!
Rob


Lee Bengston wrote:
> On 2/4/10, Rob Neece <kk4r at cox.net> wrote:
>   
>> Curt,
>>
>> I am very interested in getting this working, and your time is much
>> appreciated. I have to go take care of some business now and will get
>> back to this later this evening. If it appears most useful for me to
>> learn how to compile xastir, my work is cut out for me. I can probably
>> get some help from the MEPIS forum, but is there a latest-and-greatest
>> cookbook howto on compiling xastir?
>>     
>
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:MEPIS_8.0
>
> There is now.  I like Mepis and have intended to do this for a long
> time.  Being Debian based, the procedure is very similar to the one
> for Ubuntu.  I did a clean install of Mepis 8.0.15 last weekend, and I
> hadn't installed Xastir yet, so the timing was good.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX
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