[Xastir] make problems on OSX

[Keith Kaiser]

I downloaded and successfully installed your v1.9.7 of Xastir. It's working good, except maybe the png snapshot option. I'll keep you posted on that.

On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Jeremy McDermond wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>> 
>>> Would this package help?
>>> 
>>> http://gettext.darwinports.com/
>>> 
>>> The gist I get is that OSX gettext is broken.  Installing an updated
>>> version like the above may fix the problem, but you may also have to
>>> play some games to get Xastir to use the new version instead of the
>>> OS-supplied one.
>> 
>> Another nice article, but the guy had Python-specific trouble with
>> Fink and MacPorts "gettext".  The trouble he had shouldn't matter to
>> you:  Xastir is written in C which was working for the author in the
>> binary installs.
>> 
>> http://blog.doughellmann.com/2009/06/installing-gnu-gettext-for-use-with.html
> 
> I don't know about the OP's specific problem, but in order to build the binary distribution that I did, I had to compile and get GNU gettext installed to make it work.  You'll notice it's included with the MacOS binary on my site as an internal framework. 
> 
> I don't recall working hard to get the gettext to work, but it's been a couple of months since I've built the binary.  That's quite a while when I've got law school running around my brain.
> 
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