[Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

[Rob Neece]

Gale,

thanks for your help. I'm glad that I could give you some information to 
edit your procedure.

Rob

gdw wrote:
> 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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