[Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

Sat Feb 6 20:36:41 EST 2010

OK, just did a few checks and see that the automake1.9 is not 
specifically required anymore. The basic automake should be fine.  To be 
truthful it was left over from a previous instruction set that I had, an 
earlier version of Mepis seemed to want to install a less that the 
latest version of Automake and it was know to cause problems.  So I had 
it down to use v1.9.  The get-maptools.sh script will take care of the 
Geotiff capability.  However when I just tried to run it for my new test 
install the GDAL section errored out.  So the script itself seems to 
have a problem for that one program.

Gale
KC4PL

On 2/6/2010 8:03 PM, Rob Neece wrote:
> 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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