[Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

[Rob Neece]

Tom,

Thanks for the help. I just did the following:

1) renamed the ~/src/xastir to ~/src/xasterSTABLE

2) mkdir ~/src/xaster

3) built libmotif-1.2.5

4) ran the following to prepare for xastir -

cd ~/src
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir co xastir
cd xastir
./bootstrap.sh

5) installed xastir, bleeding edge

6) got the following results -
>>>
xastir 1.9.9 has been configured to use the following
options and external libraries:

MINIMUM OPTIONS:
  ShapeLib (Vector maps) ................. : yes

RECOMMENDED OPTIONS:
  GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick (Raster maps) : yes (GraphicsMagick)
  pcre (Shapefile customization) ......... : yes
  dbfawk (Shapefile customization) ....... : yes
  rtree indexing (Shapefile speedups) .... : yes
  map caching (Raster map speedups) ...... : yes
  internet map retrieval ................. : yes (wget)

FOR THE ADVENTUROUS:
  AX25 (Linux Kernel I/O Drivers) ........ : yes
  libproj (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : yes
  GeoTiff (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : yes
  Festival (Text-to-speech) .............. : yes
  GDAL/OGR (Obtuse map formats) .......... : no
  GPSMan/gpsmanshp (GPS downloads) ....... : yes

xastir will be installed in /usr/local/bin.
Type 'make' to build Xastir (Use 'gmake' instead on some systems).
rtn at hawk:~/src/xastir/build$
rtn at hawk:~/src/xastir/build$ xastir


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)
client(2) Sat Feb  6 21:52:07 2010 : accepted from localhost
Indexing maps...
Finished indexing maps
*** Reading WX Alert log files
*** Done with WX Alert log files
<<<

Note that I didn't do anything about having automake1.9 installed versus 
automake. Should I do something about that? Is it as easy as removing 
one and installing the other? My assumption is that the right version 
needs to be there when xastir is compiled.

Rob

Tom Russo wrote:
> bla bla bla ...
> Building libgeotiff is almost a no-brainer:
>
>   wget http://dl.maptools.org/dl/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.2.3.tar.gz
>   tar xzf libgeotiff-1.2.3.tar.gz
>   cd libgeotiff-1.2.3
>   ./configure --with-ld-shared="gcc -shared"
>   make
>   sudo make install
>
> That's all that get-maptools does.
>
> The "with-ld-shared" thing is necessary for all 1.2.x versions of libgeotiff, 
> because those versions incorrectly used "ld -shared" which broke with modern
> versions of gcc.
>
> You can just build libgeotiff with those 6 commands, then just reconfigure and 
> rebuild Xastir.  Adding geotiff support once you've got all the other stuff 
> working takes only a few minutes.
>
>